Quail, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Quail, 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 Quail lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Quail — the short answer
Quail, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Quail's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Quail's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Quail
Each reading below is measured for Quail itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredQuail 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
MeasuredQuail 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 Quail is in
Quail sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Quail's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Collingsworth County is mostly Southwestern Tablelands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Quail
Every plant below cleared Quail'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 Quail?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Quail
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Quail. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EARL PARKERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- COUNTY BARNUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- WELLINGTON TXD980540389Underground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- OWENS SALVAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- SKYROCKET 66Underground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- STICE GROCERY & STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- BRONCO SEEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- JOHN E HOLTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- FARMERS COOPERATIVE SOCIETY 1Underground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- JERRY LEWIS FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- JB KILLIAN PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- DAVIS GRO & STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
5 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Quail'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 Quail.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Quail
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Quail
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 Quail
Everything above resolves to Quail as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Quail Average
Quail Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Quail
- ●One soil character for all of Quail
- ●Frost dates read at Quail's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Quail's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Quail
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Quail, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Quail — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Quail average
How we know this about Quail
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 Quail’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 Quail
When does frost risk typically end in Quail?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Quail typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Quail?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Quail typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Quail?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Quail sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 29, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Quail?
The federal record around Quail is light — 17 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (17), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 7.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Quail?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Quail's scale — its 7b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Quail'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 Quail’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Quail's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,036 acres it covers and 17 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Quail's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Quail's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 12 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 17 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Quail, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 7.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Quail's boundary and the 2,036 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Quail sits in the Central Great Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Quail's 2,036 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Collingsworth County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Collingsworth 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 Collingsworth County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Quail's 2,036 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Quail you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,036 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 7.2 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 Quail-wide figureread your own land →
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