Hedley, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Hedley, 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 Hedley lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hedley — the short answer
Hedley, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 458 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 458 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 7b is Hedley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hedley's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hedley
Each reading below is measured for Hedley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHedley runs about 228 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
MeasuredHedley sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Hedley is in
Hedley sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Hedley's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Donley County is mostly Southwestern Tablelands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Hedley
Every plant below cleared Hedley's own zone 7b and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hedley?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Hedley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hedley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- UNCLE BOBSUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- HEDLEY CATTLE FEEDLOTCAFO · 2.2 mi
- DRY FORK FEEDYARDCAFO · 2.2 mi
- CANTEX FEEDERSCAFO · 2.5 mi
Measured from Hedley'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 Hedley.
Total Sites
4
within ~10 miles of Hedley
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 concentrated animal feeding operations
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hedley
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Hedley
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 Hedley average
Your land is one point inside Hedley
Everything above resolves to Hedley as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 458 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 Hedley Average
Hedley Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Hedley
- ●One soil character for all of Hedley
- ●Frost dates read at Hedley's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hedley's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hedley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hedley, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hedley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hedley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hedley average
How we know this about Hedley
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 Hedley’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 Hedley
When does frost risk typically end in Hedley?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hedley typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Hedley?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hedley typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hedley?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hedley sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 28, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hedley?
The federal record around Hedley is light — 4 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly CAFO entries (3), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Hedley?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hedley's scale — its 7b band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hedley'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 Hedley’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hedley's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 458 acres it covers and 4 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hedley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hedley's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 11 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hedley, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hedley's boundary and the 458 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Hedley sits in the Central Great Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hedley's 458 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Donley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Donley 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 Donley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hedley's 458 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hedley you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 458 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Hedley-wide figureread your own land →
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