Lelia Lake, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Lelia Lake, 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 Lelia Lake lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lelia Lake — the short answer
Lelia Lake, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 569 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 569 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 Lelia Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lelia Lake's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lelia Lake
Each reading below is measured for Lelia Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLelia Lake 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
MeasuredLelia Lake 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 Lelia Lake is in
Lelia Lake sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lelia Lake'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 Lelia Lake
Every plant below cleared Lelia Lake'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 Lelia Lake?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Lelia Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lelia Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CANTEX FEEDERSCAFO · 4.4 mi
- EVANS FERTILIZERUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- PETTY TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- GILES CONVENIENCE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- CLARENDON MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- CLARENDON CONSOLIDATED ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- TXDOT MAINTENANCE CLARENDONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- CLARENDON COLLEGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- MAYS 66Underground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- FINA OIL & CHEMICALUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- CHAMBERLAIN MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- RILEYS CURIO SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lelia Lake'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 Lelia Lake.
Total Sites
38
within ~10 miles of Lelia Lake
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lelia Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lelia Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lelia Lake, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lelia Lake — CAFO (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (33 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Lelia Lake
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 Lelia Lake average
Your land is one point inside Lelia Lake
Everything above resolves to Lelia Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 569 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 Lelia Lake Average
Lelia Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Lelia Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Lelia Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Lelia Lake's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lelia Lake's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lelia Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lelia Lake, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lelia Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lelia Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lelia Lake average
How we know this about Lelia Lake
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 Lelia Lake’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 Lelia Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Lelia Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lelia Lake typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Lelia Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lelia Lake typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lelia Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lelia Lake sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 27, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lelia Lake?
The federal record around Lelia Lake is light — 38 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (33), the nearest CAFO record about 4.4 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 Lelia Lake?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lelia Lake's scale — its 7b band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lelia Lake'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 Lelia Lake’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lelia Lake's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 569 acres it covers and 38 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lelia Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lelia Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 10 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 38 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lelia Lake, the closest CAFO record about 4.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lelia Lake's boundary and the 569 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lelia Lake 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 Lelia Lake's 569 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 Lelia Lake's 569 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lelia Lake you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 569 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 4.4 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 Lelia Lake-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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