Canutillo, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Canutillo, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Canutillo lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Canutillo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Canutillo — the short answer
Canutillo, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 278 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~278
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Canutillo's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Canutillo's 278-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Canutillo
Each reading below is measured for Canutillo itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCanutillo runs about 278 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCanutillo sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Canutillo is in
Canutillo sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Canutillo's own centroid rather than borrowed from El Paso County.
What Grows in Canutillo
Every plant below cleared Canutillo's own zone 8b and its 278-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Canutillo?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
Documented around Canutillo
Survey cells within 31 miles of Canutillo checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 622 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Canutillo
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Canutillo. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RIO GRANDE SUPERMARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- MR PUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- EL PASO COUNTY WATER IMP DIST 1Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- LUCEROS CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CANUTILLO XA0102Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- COLONIAL FOOD STORES 1820Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BOB BOYLES REALTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CANUTILLO FEED STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- HOWDYS 304Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- SAVAGE BULK PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- VALLEY BY PRODUCTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- CARRASCO TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Canutillo's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Canutillo.
Total Sites
507
within ~10 miles of Canutillo
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Canutillo
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Canutillo
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Canutillo
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Your land is one point inside Canutillo
Everything above resolves to Canutillo as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Canutillo Average
Canutillo Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Canutillo
- ●One soil character for all of Canutillo
- ●Frost dates read at Canutillo's scale: Feb 21 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Canutillo's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Canutillo
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Canutillo, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Canutillo averages can't show:
We read public map data around Canutillo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Canutillo average
How we know this about Canutillo
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Canutillo’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Canutillo
When does frost risk typically end in Canutillo?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Canutillo typically lands around Feb 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Mar 14.
When is the first frost in Canutillo?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Canutillo typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 278 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Canutillo?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Canutillo sees about 278 frost-free days — roughly Feb 21 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 14 to Nov 12, about 243 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Canutillo?
The federal record around Canutillo is a meaningful one — 507 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (242), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Canutillo?
From about Oct 27 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Canutillo's scale — its 8b band and its 278-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Canutillo's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Canutillo’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Canutillo's own scale — its own ~278-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,757 acres it covers and 507 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Canutillo's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Canutillo's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 21 and Nov 26 and the ~278-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 507 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Canutillo, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Canutillo's boundary and the 1,757 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~278-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Canutillo's own centroid, the Chihuahuan DesertsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Canutillo checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Canutillo's 1,757 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom El Paso County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom El Paso County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom El Paso County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Canutillo's 1,757 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Canutillo you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,757 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Canutillo-wide figureread your own land →