Pyote, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pyote, 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 Pyote 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 Pyote — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pyote — the short answer
Pyote, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 255 days between hard freezes, across 815 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~255
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 815 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 8a is Pyote's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pyote's 255-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pyote
Each reading below is measured for Pyote itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPyote runs about 255 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
MeasuredPyote sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Pyote is in
Pyote sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Pyote's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ward County.
What Grows in Pyote
Every plant below cleared Pyote's own zone 8a and its 255-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pyote?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — 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 Pyote
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pyote. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PYOTE TRUCK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- TRANSWESTERN PYOTE PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- AUNT JACKIES PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- PYOTE UNCLES 130209Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- DONS GROCERY & DELIUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MILPARK PECOS WAREHOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- O&A TEX-PACKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- MONAHANS SANDHILLS STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- TEXAS LEASE WORKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- WEST TEXAS STATE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- MODERN FOOD STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- MONAHANS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pyote'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 Pyote.
Total Sites
52
within ~10 miles of Pyote
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pyote
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pyote
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pyote, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 45 sites within ~10 miles of Pyote. 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 Pyote
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 Pyote average
Your land is one point inside Pyote
Everything above resolves to Pyote as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 815 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 Pyote Average
Pyote Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Pyote
- ●One soil character for all of Pyote
- ●Frost dates read at Pyote's scale: Mar 7 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pyote's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pyote
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pyote, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pyote averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pyote — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pyote average
How we know this about Pyote
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 Pyote’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 Pyote
When does frost risk typically end in Pyote?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pyote typically lands around Mar 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Pyote?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pyote typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 255 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pyote?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pyote sees about 255 frost-free days — roughly Mar 7 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 28 to Nov 3, about 220 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pyote?
The federal record around Pyote shows 52 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (45), 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 Pyote?
From about Oct 18 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 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 Nov 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pyote's scale — its 8a band and its 255-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pyote'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 Pyote’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pyote's own scale — its own ~255-day season between 28°F freezes, the 815 acres it covers and 52 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pyote's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pyote's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 7 and Nov 17 and the ~255-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 52 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pyote, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pyote's boundary and the 815 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~255-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pyote's own centroid, the Chihuahuan DesertsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pyote's 815 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ward County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ward 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 Ward County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pyote's 815 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pyote you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 815 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 Pyote-wide figureread your own land →
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