Opdyke West, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Opdyke West, 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 Opdyke West lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Opdyke West — the short answer
Opdyke West, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 231 days between hard freezes, across 144 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- 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
- ~231
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 144 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 Opdyke West's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Opdyke West's 231-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Opdyke West
Each reading below is measured for Opdyke West itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOpdyke West runs about 231 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
MeasuredOpdyke West 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 Opdyke West is in
Opdyke West sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Opdyke West's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hockley County.
What Grows in Opdyke West
Every plant below cleared Opdyke West's own zone 7b and its 231-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Opdyke West?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (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. 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 Opdyke West
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Opdyke West. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OPDYKE COOP GINUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LX-24-30-503Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- HALLIBURTON LOGGING SERVICES INUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- HIGHTOWER FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CRADDOCK SUPRMRKTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- ENVIRO TECH CHEMICAL SERVICES, INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- DIAMOND ETHANOL LLCToxics Release Inventory · 2.2 mi
- SUMMIT RECLAMATION SERVICESToxics Release Inventory · 2.6 mi
- COMMUNITY COOP GIN 1Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- TOMMYS DIESEL & GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- W & T TANK TRUCKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- OPDYKE FARMERS COOPERATIVE GINUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Opdyke West'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 Opdyke West.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Opdyke West
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Opdyke West
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Opdyke West, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 133 sites within ~10 miles of Opdyke West. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Opdyke West
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 Opdyke West average
Your land is one point inside Opdyke West
Everything above resolves to Opdyke West as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 144 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 Opdyke West Average
Opdyke West Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Opdyke West
- ●One soil character for all of Opdyke West
- ●Frost dates read at Opdyke West's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Opdyke West's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Opdyke West
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Opdyke West, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Opdyke West — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Opdyke West average
How we know this about Opdyke West
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 Opdyke West’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 Opdyke West
When does frost risk typically end in Opdyke West?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Opdyke West typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 15.
When is the first frost in Opdyke West?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Opdyke West 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 231 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Opdyke West?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Opdyke West sees about 231 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 28, about 196 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Opdyke West?
The federal record around Opdyke West is a meaningful one — 178 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (133), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Opdyke West?
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 Opdyke West's scale — its 7b band and its 231-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Opdyke West'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 Opdyke West’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Opdyke West's own scale — its own ~231-day season between 28°F freezes, the 144 acres it covers and 178 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Opdyke West's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Opdyke West's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 11 and the ~231-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 178 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Opdyke West, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Opdyke West's boundary and the 144 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~231-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Opdyke West's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Opdyke West's 144 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hockley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hockley 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 Hockley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Opdyke West's 144 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Opdyke West you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 144 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Opdyke West-wide figureread your own land →