Los Veteranos II, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Los Veteranos II, 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 Los Veteranos II lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Los Veteranos II — the short answer
Los Veteranos II, Texas: USDA zone 9b, about 326 days between hard freezes, across 102 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 25
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 17
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~326
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 102 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 Webb County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Los Veteranos II's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Los Veteranos II's 326-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Los Veteranos II
Each reading below is measured for Los Veteranos II itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLos Veteranos II runs about 326 days between hard freezes (read from Webb County, the closest normal to Los Veteranos II) — 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
MeasuredLos Veteranos II sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Los Veteranos II is in
Los Veteranos II sits in the Southern Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Los Veteranos II's own centroid rather than borrowed from Webb County.
What Grows in Los Veteranos II
Every plant below cleared Los Veteranos II's own zone 9b and its 326-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Los Veteranos II?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 17 — 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 Los Veteranos II
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Los Veteranos II. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- YZ-85-13-801Nitrate · 2500 ft
- SOS COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- YZ-85-13-501Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- WAL-MART SUPERCENTER 3623Brownfields · 4.5 mi
- YZ-85-14-401Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- REVEILLE CRYOGENIC PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 5.1 mi
- CASSO FORWARDINGBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- ALLIED FORWARDING CORPBrownfields · 5.4 mi
- YZ-85-21-502Nitrate · 5.6 mi
- PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO., LPBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- PILOT THOMAS LOGISTICS LAREDO MECHANIC SHOPBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- R & J ENVIRONMENTALBrownfields · 5.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Los Veteranos II'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 Los Veteranos II.
Total Sites
107
within ~10 miles of Los Veteranos II
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Los Veteranos II
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Los Veteranos II
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Los Veteranos II
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Your land is one point inside Los Veteranos II
Everything above resolves to Los Veteranos II as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 102 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Webb 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 Los Veteranos II Average
Los Veteranos II Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Los Veteranos II
- ●One soil character for all of Los Veteranos II
- ●Frost dates read at Los Veteranos II's scale: Jan 25 to Dec 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Los Veteranos II's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Los Veteranos II
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Los Veteranos II, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Los Veteranos II — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Los Veteranos II average
How we know this about Los Veteranos II
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 Webb 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 Los Veteranos II
When does frost risk typically end in Los Veteranos II?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Los Veteranos II typically lands around Jan 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Los Veteranos II?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Los Veteranos II typically arrives around Dec 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 3, so the watching starts about Nov 17 — about 326 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Los Veteranos II?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Los Veteranos II sees about 326 frost-free days — roughly Jan 25 through Dec 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 15 to Dec 3, about 291 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Los Veteranos II?
The federal record around Los Veteranos II shows 107 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (65), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.5 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 Los Veteranos II?
From about Nov 17 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Los Veteranos II's scale — its 9b band and its 326-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Los Veteranos II'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 Los Veteranos II’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Los Veteranos II's own scale — the 102 acres it covers and 107 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Los Veteranos II's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 107 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Los Veteranos II, the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Los Veteranos II's boundary and the 102 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~326-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Los Veteranos II's own centroid, the Southern Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Los Veteranos II has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Webb County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Los Veteranos II's 102 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Webb County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Webb 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 Webb County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Los Veteranos II's 102 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Los Veteranos II you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 102 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Los Veteranos II-wide figureread your own land →