New Home, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in New Home, 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 New Home 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 New Home — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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New Home — the short answer
New Home, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 641 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 641 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 New Home's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Home's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Home
Each reading below is measured for New Home itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Home runs about 235 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
MeasuredNew Home 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 New Home is in
New Home sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at New Home's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lynn County.
What Grows in New Home
Every plant below cleared New Home's own zone 7b and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Home?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near New Home
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Home. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- THE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- EDDINS WALCHER COToxics Release Inventory · 650 ft
- SR-23-41-502Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- SP-23-33-802 (SAL-123)Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- THE COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- (Facility) Amarillo Zinc SmelterMining · 7.4 mi
- BERNARDS BEER WINE & LIQUOR STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- BENS 6 TO 10Underground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- SONNYS MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.3 mi
- COOPER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTBrownfields · 9.2 mi
- LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMPFAS · 9.6 mi
Measured from New Home'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 New Home.
Total Sites
13
within ~10 miles of New Home
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Home
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Home
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in New Home
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 New Home average
Your land is one point inside New Home
Everything above resolves to New Home as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 641 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 New Home Average
New Home Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across New Home
- ●One soil character for all of New Home
- ●Frost dates read at New Home's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Home's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around New Home — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Home average
How we know this about New Home
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 New Home’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 New Home
When does frost risk typically end in New Home?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Home typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in New Home?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Home typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Home?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Home sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 31, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Home?
The federal record around New Home shows 13 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (5), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 New Home?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Home's scale — its 7b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Home'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 New Home’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at New Home's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 641 acres it covers and 13 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Home's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Home's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 14 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 13 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Home, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Home's boundary and the 641 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Home's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Home's 641 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lynn County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lynn 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 Lynn County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Home's 641 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Home you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 641 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 New Home-wide figureread your own land →