Littlefield, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Littlefield, 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 Littlefield 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 Littlefield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Littlefield — the short answer
Littlefield, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Littlefield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Littlefield's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Littlefield
Each reading below is measured for Littlefield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLittlefield runs about 224 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
MeasuredLittlefield 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 Littlefield is in
Littlefield sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Littlefield's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lamb County.
What Grows in Littlefield
Every plant below cleared Littlefield's own zone 7b and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Littlefield?
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 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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 Littlefield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Littlefield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CLARKS CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #3595Brownfields · 700 ft
- STANS CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- LAMB COUNTY PRECINCT 3Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- CITY HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- LOWES 8Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- PLAINS COTTON COOP ASSOCIATESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- AMERICAN COTTON GROWERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- JOLLY ROGER CONVENIENCE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WINDSTREAM LITTLEFIELD CENTRAL OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- MIKE MELCHERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- STRIPES 5016Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Littlefield'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 Littlefield.
Total Sites
66
within ~10 miles of Littlefield
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Littlefield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Littlefield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Littlefield, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Littlefield — CAFO (7 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (44 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 Littlefield
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 Littlefield average
Your land is one point inside Littlefield
Everything above resolves to Littlefield as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Littlefield Average
Littlefield Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Littlefield
- ●One soil character for all of Littlefield
- ●Frost dates read at Littlefield's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Littlefield's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Littlefield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Littlefield, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Littlefield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Littlefield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Littlefield average
How we know this about Littlefield
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 Littlefield’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 Littlefield
When does frost risk typically end in Littlefield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Littlefield typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Littlefield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Littlefield typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Littlefield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Littlefield sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 25, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Littlefield?
The federal record around Littlefield shows 66 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (44), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Littlefield?
From about Oct 9 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 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 Nov 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Littlefield's scale — its 7b band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Littlefield'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 Littlefield’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Littlefield's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,021 acres it covers and 66 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Littlefield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Littlefield's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 8 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 66 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Littlefield, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Littlefield's boundary and the 4,021 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Littlefield's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Littlefield's 4,021 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lamb County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lamb 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 Lamb County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Littlefield's 4,021 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Littlefield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,021 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 Littlefield-wide figureread your own land →