Tanquecitos South Acres, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Tanquecitos South Acres, 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 Tanquecitos South Acres lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tanquecitos South Acres — the short answer
Tanquecitos South Acres, Texas: USDA zone 9b, about 326 days between hard freezes, across 305 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 25
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 17
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~326
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 305 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Webb County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Tanquecitos South Acres's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tanquecitos South Acres's 326-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tanquecitos South Acres
Each reading below is measured for Tanquecitos South Acres itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTanquecitos South Acres runs about 326 days between hard freezes (read from Webb County, the closest normal to Tanquecitos South Acres) — 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
MeasuredTanquecitos South Acres sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Tanquecitos South Acres is in
Tanquecitos South Acres sits in the Southern Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Tanquecitos South Acres's own centroid rather than borrowed from Webb County.
What Grows in Tanquecitos South Acres
Every plant below cleared Tanquecitos South Acres's own zone 9b and its 326-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tanquecitos South Acres?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Tanquecitos South Acres
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tanquecitos South Acres. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CITY OF LAREDO LANDFILLBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- BROTHERS MATERIALS LTDBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- CHIEFS FOOD MART & RESTAURANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- YZ-85-37-205Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- MOLINAS COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- TRACTOR SUPPLY #1534Brownfields · 3.2 mi
- 7-ELEVEN STORE 40925Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- 7-ELEVEN STORE 40923Underground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- YZ-85-37-206Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- WEBB COUNTY RD & BRIDGE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- AZTEC FUELS INCBrownfields · 4.2 mi
- ARGUINDEGUI PUMP N SHOP 26Underground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tanquecitos South Acres'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 Tanquecitos South Acres.
Total Sites
423
within ~10 miles of Tanquecitos South Acres
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tanquecitos South Acres
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tanquecitos South Acres
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tanquecitos South Acres, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 280 sites within ~10 miles of Tanquecitos South Acres. 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 Tanquecitos South Acres
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 Tanquecitos South Acres average
Your land is one point inside Tanquecitos South Acres
Everything above resolves to Tanquecitos South Acres as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 305 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Webb County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Tanquecitos South Acres Average
Tanquecitos South Acres Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Tanquecitos South Acres
- ●One soil character for all of Tanquecitos South Acres
- ●Frost dates read at Tanquecitos South Acres's scale: Jan 25 to Dec 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tanquecitos South Acres's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tanquecitos South Acres
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tanquecitos South Acres, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tanquecitos South Acres averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tanquecitos South Acres — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tanquecitos South Acres average
How we know this about Tanquecitos South Acres
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 Webb County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Tanquecitos South Acres
When does frost risk typically end in Tanquecitos South Acres?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tanquecitos South Acres typically lands around Jan 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 Feb 15.
When is the first frost in Tanquecitos South Acres?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tanquecitos South Acres typically arrives around Dec 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 3, so the watching starts about Nov 17 — about 326 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tanquecitos South Acres?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tanquecitos South Acres sees about 326 frost-free days — roughly Jan 25 through Dec 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 15 to Dec 3, about 291 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tanquecitos South Acres?
The federal record around Tanquecitos South Acres is a meaningful one — 423 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (280), the nearest Brownfields record about 1.6 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 Tanquecitos South Acres?
From about Nov 17 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 Dec 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 Dec 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tanquecitos South Acres's scale — its 9b band and its 326-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tanquecitos South Acres'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 Tanquecitos South Acres’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Tanquecitos South Acres's own scale — the 305 acres it covers and 423 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tanquecitos South Acres's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 423 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tanquecitos South Acres, the closest Brownfields record about 1.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tanquecitos South Acres's boundary and the 305 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~326-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tanquecitos South Acres's own centroid, the Southern Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Tanquecitos South Acres has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Webb County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tanquecitos South Acres's 305 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Webb County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Webb 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 Webb County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tanquecitos South Acres's 305 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tanquecitos South Acres you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 305 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 1.6 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 Tanquecitos South Acres-wide figureread your own land →