Lockney, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lockney, 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 Lockney 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 Lockney — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lockney — the short answer
Lockney, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 991 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- 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
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 991 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 Lockney's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lockney's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lockney
Each reading below is measured for Lockney itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLockney runs about 226 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
MeasuredLockney 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 Lockney is in
Lockney sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lockney's own centroid rather than borrowed from Floyd County.
What Grows in Lockney
Every plant below cleared Lockney's own zone 7b and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lockney?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Lockney
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lockney. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JCS AUTO & TRANSMISSIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- ALLSUPS 59Underground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- MARY HUTTON TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- WEBSTER SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- LOCKNEY GENERAL HOSPITAL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- HI-PERFORMANCE FUELUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- LOCKNEY COOP GINUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- AGCO MANUFACTURING GROUP TYE DIVToxics Release Inventory · 1.1 mi
- WESTERN CATTLE FEEDERSCAFO · 4.1 mi
- FLOYD COUNTY MAINT SECTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.7 mi
- RIVERSIDE TERRACORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.7 mi
- GULF STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lockney'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 Lockney.
Total Sites
25
within ~10 miles of Lockney
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lockney
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lockney
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lockney, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 23 sites within ~10 miles of Lockney. 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 Lockney
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 Lockney average
Your land is one point inside Lockney
Everything above resolves to Lockney as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 991 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 Lockney Average
Lockney Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Lockney
- ●One soil character for all of Lockney
- ●Frost dates read at Lockney's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lockney's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lockney
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lockney, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lockney averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lockney — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lockney average
How we know this about Lockney
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 Lockney’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 Lockney
When does frost risk typically end in Lockney?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lockney typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Lockney?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lockney 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 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lockney?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lockney sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 28, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lockney?
The federal record around Lockney is light — 25 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (23), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lockney?
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 Lockney's scale — its 7b band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lockney'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 Lockney’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lockney's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 991 acres it covers and 25 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lockney's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lockney's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 11 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 25 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lockney, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lockney's boundary and the 991 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lockney's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lockney's 991 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Floyd County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Floyd 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 Floyd County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lockney's 991 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lockney you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 991 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lockney-wide figureread your own land →