La Pryor, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in La Pryor, 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 La Pryor lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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La Pryor — the short answer
La Pryor, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 307 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 4
- Zavala County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 8
- Zavala County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~307
- Zavala County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Zavala County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is La Pryor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against La Pryor's 307-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in La Pryor
Each reading below is measured for La Pryor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLa Pryor runs about 307 days between hard freezes (read from Zavala County, the closest normal to La Pryor) — 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
MeasuredLa Pryor sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 La Pryor is in
La Pryor sits in the Southern Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at La Pryor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Zavala County.
What Grows in La Pryor
Every plant below cleared La Pryor's own zone 9a and its 307-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in La Pryor?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near La Pryor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of La Pryor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FAMILY DOLLAR # 10488Brownfields · 2400 ft
- KWIK CHEK 87Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- S AND L OIL FIELD SERVICESBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- THE ICE BOXUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ZX-77-02-513Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- ZX-69-58-801Nitrate · 4.5 mi
- AGRO FARM SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- JERRYS CORNER MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- BILLIE MCHAZLETTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- MUNOZ SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- SALAZARS EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- GRANTS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from La Pryor'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 La Pryor.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of La Pryor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of La Pryor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around La Pryor, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 24 sites within ~10 miles of La Pryor. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in La Pryor
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 La Pryor average
Your land is one point inside La Pryor
Everything above resolves to La Pryor as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Zavala County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 La Pryor Average
La Pryor Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across La Pryor
- ●One soil character for all of La Pryor
- ●Frost dates read at La Pryor's scale: Feb 4 to Dec 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not La Pryor's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in La Pryor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in La Pryor, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that La Pryor averages can't show:
We read public map data around La Pryor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the La Pryor average
How we know this about La Pryor
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 Zavala County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 La Pryor
When does frost risk typically end in La Pryor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in La Pryor typically lands around Feb 4, 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 Feb 25.
When is the first frost in La Pryor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in La Pryor typically arrives around Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 24, so the watching starts about Nov 8 — about 307 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in La Pryor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, La Pryor sees about 307 frost-free days — roughly Feb 4 through Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 25 to Nov 24, about 272 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in La Pryor?
The federal record around La Pryor is light — 30 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (24), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 La Pryor?
From about Nov 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 Dec 8 (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 Dec 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at La Pryor's scale — its 9a band and its 307-day season. Your yard writes its own version of La Pryor'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 La Pryor’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at La Pryor's own scale — the 1,708 acres it covers and 30 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- La Pryor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 30 documented contamination sites on the federal record near La Pryor, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- La Pryor's boundary and the 1,708 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~307-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at La Pryor's own centroid, the Southern Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — La Pryor has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Zavala County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so La Pryor's 1,708 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Zavala County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Zavala 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 Zavala County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among La Pryor's 1,708 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of La Pryor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,708 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 La Pryor-wide figureread your own land →