Canyon, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Canyon, 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 Canyon 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 Canyon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Canyon — the short answer
Canyon, Texas: USDA zone 7a, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 5K 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 7a is Canyon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Canyon's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Canyon
Each reading below is measured for Canyon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCanyon runs about 219 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCanyon sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Canyon is in
Canyon sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Canyon's own centroid rather than borrowed from Randall County.
What Grows in Canyon
Every plant below cleared Canyon's own zone 7a and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Canyon?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Canyon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Canyon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- UNITED SUPERMARKET 532Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- WEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- STEVES TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- THE DONUT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- REX GRIFFINUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ALLSUPS 166Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- B C TAYLOR SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- TOOT N TOTUM 125Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 3 R & P HOLDINGSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- RANDALL COUNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LACO SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ATEX GAS 1564Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Canyon'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 Canyon.
Total Sites
129
within ~10 miles of Canyon
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Canyon
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Canyon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Canyon, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Canyon — CAFO (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (106 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Canyon
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Canyon average
Your land is one point inside Canyon
Everything above resolves to Canyon as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 city 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 Canyon Average
Canyon Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Canyon
- ●One soil character for all of Canyon
- ●Frost dates read at Canyon's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Canyon's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Canyon
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Canyon, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Canyon averages can't show:
We read public map data around Canyon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Canyon average
How we know this about Canyon
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Canyon’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Canyon
When does frost risk typically end in Canyon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Canyon typically lands around Apr 2, 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 Apr 23.
When is the first frost in Canyon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Canyon typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Canyon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Canyon sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 24, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Canyon?
The federal record around Canyon shows 129 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (106), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Canyon?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Canyon's scale — its 7a band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Canyon'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 Canyon’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Canyon's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,169 acres it covers and 129 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Canyon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Canyon's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 7 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 129 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Canyon, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Canyon's boundary and the 5,169 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Canyon's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Canyon's 5,169 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randall 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 Randall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Canyon's 5,169 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Canyon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,169 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles 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 Canyon-wide figureread your own land →