Farnsworth, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Farnsworth, 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 Farnsworth lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Farnsworth — the short answer
Farnsworth, Texas: USDA zone 7a, about 205 days between hard freezes, across 859 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~205
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 859 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 Farnsworth's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Farnsworth's 205-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Farnsworth
Each reading below is measured for Farnsworth itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFarnsworth runs about 205 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
MeasuredFarnsworth 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 Farnsworth is in
Farnsworth sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Farnsworth's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ochiltree County.
What Grows in Farnsworth
Every plant below cleared Farnsworth's own zone 7a and its 205-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Farnsworth?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Farnsworth
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Farnsworth. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- IMOS COUNTRY STORE 4Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- FARNSWORTH CRUDE OIL PUMP STATIONBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- FARM 312CAFO · 4.6 mi
- PAUL FARMS SITE 2CAFO · 4.6 mi
- UD-04-41-3xx (OC-4196)Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- PAUL FARMS SITE 1CAFO · 5.2 mi
- HANSEN FARMINGCAFO · 5.3 mi
- FARM 51CAFO · 7.5 mi
- HWY 15 & ETONUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.8 mi
- PERRYTON CLEANERS & LAUNDRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.8 mi
- PERRYTON SAFETY LANEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.8 mi
- PERRYTON OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Farnsworth'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 Farnsworth.
Total Sites
40
within ~10 miles of Farnsworth
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Farnsworth
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Farnsworth
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Farnsworth, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Farnsworth — CAFO (6 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (25 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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.
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25+ data sources read at your address, not the Farnsworth average
Your land is one point inside Farnsworth
Everything above resolves to Farnsworth as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 859 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 Farnsworth Average
Farnsworth Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Farnsworth
- ●One soil character for all of Farnsworth
- ●Frost dates read at Farnsworth's scale: Apr 9 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Farnsworth's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Farnsworth
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Three things about your lot that Farnsworth averages can't show:
We read public map data around Farnsworth — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Farnsworth average
How we know this about Farnsworth
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 Farnsworth’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 Farnsworth
When does frost risk typically end in Farnsworth?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Farnsworth typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Farnsworth?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Farnsworth typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 205 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Farnsworth?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Farnsworth sees about 205 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 17, about 170 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Farnsworth?
The federal record around Farnsworth is light — 40 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (25), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Farnsworth?
From about Oct 1 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 Oct 31 (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 Oct 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Farnsworth's scale — its 7a band and its 205-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Farnsworth'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 Farnsworth’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Farnsworth's own scale — its own ~205-day season between 28°F freezes, the 859 acres it covers and 40 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Farnsworth's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Farnsworth's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Oct 31 and the ~205-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 40 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Farnsworth, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Farnsworth's boundary and the 859 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~205-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Farnsworth's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Farnsworth's 859 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ochiltree County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ochiltree 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 Ochiltree County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Farnsworth's 859 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Farnsworth you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 859 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Farnsworth-wide figureread your own land →