Prado Verde, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Prado Verde, 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 Prado Verde lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Prado Verde — the short answer
Prado Verde, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 280 days between hard freezes, across 83 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~280
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 83 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 8b is Prado Verde's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Prado Verde's 280-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Prado Verde
Each reading below is measured for Prado Verde itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPrado Verde runs about 280 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredPrado Verde sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Prado Verde is in
Prado Verde sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Prado Verde's own centroid rather than borrowed from El Paso County.
What Grows in Prado Verde
Every plant below cleared Prado Verde's own zone 8b and its 280-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Prado Verde?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
Documented around Prado Verde
Survey cells within 31 miles of Prado Verde checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 621 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Prado Verde
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Prado Verde. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TXDOT CANUTILLO MAINTENANCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- TRE-POLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CIRCLE K STORE 2703299Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CIRCLE K STORE 2700616Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- EL PASO WATER UTILITIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- STOP N GO 1824Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #4444Brownfields · 1.4 mi
- G T MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SUNBELT INDUSTRIAL RECYCLINGBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- BELL ATLANTIC METRO MOBILE 3Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CIRCLE K STORE 2700543Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- MBOWN-190 - 28S.03E.16.221B (ISC-7B/ISC-7D)Nitrate · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Prado Verde'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 Prado Verde.
Total Sites
506
within ~10 miles of Prado Verde
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Prado Verde
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Prado Verde
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Prado Verde, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 7 sites within ~10 miles of Prado Verde. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Prado Verde
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Prado Verde
Everything above resolves to Prado Verde as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 83 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 Prado Verde Average
Prado Verde Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Prado Verde
- ●One soil character for all of Prado Verde
- ●Frost dates read at Prado Verde's scale: Feb 21 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Prado Verde's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Prado Verde
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Prado Verde, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Prado Verde averages can't show:
We read public map data around Prado Verde — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Prado Verde average
How we know this about Prado Verde
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 Prado Verde’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 Prado Verde
When does frost risk typically end in Prado Verde?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Prado Verde typically lands around Feb 21, 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 Mar 14.
When is the first frost in Prado Verde?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Prado Verde typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 280 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Prado Verde?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Prado Verde sees about 280 frost-free days — roughly Feb 21 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 14 to Nov 14, about 245 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Prado Verde?
The federal record around Prado Verde is a meaningful one — 506 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (248), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Prado Verde?
From about Oct 29 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Prado Verde's scale — its 8b band and its 280-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Prado Verde'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 Prado Verde’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Prado Verde's own scale — its own ~280-day season between 28°F freezes, the 83 acres it covers and 506 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Prado Verde's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Prado Verde's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 21 and Nov 28 and the ~280-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 506 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Prado Verde, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Prado Verde's boundary and the 83 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~280-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Prado Verde's own centroid, the Chihuahuan DesertsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Prado Verde checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Prado Verde's 83 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom El Paso County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom El Paso 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 El Paso County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Prado Verde's 83 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Prado Verde you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 83 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Prado Verde-wide figureread your own land →