White Deer, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in White Deer, 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 White Deer lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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White Deer — the short answer
White Deer, Texas: USDA zone 7a, about 216 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~216
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 7a is White Deer's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against White Deer's 216-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in White Deer
Each reading below is measured for White Deer itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWhite Deer runs about 216 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
MeasuredWhite Deer sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 White Deer is in
White Deer sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at White Deer's own centroid rather than borrowed from Carson County.
What Grows in White Deer
Every plant below cleared White Deer's own zone 7a and its 216-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in White Deer?
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 Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near White Deer
Closest first, within ~10 miles of White Deer. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ALLSUPS 78Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- JRS HAMBURGER HUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- K & KUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- AMERICAN PIPELINE WHITEDEER NO 1Brownfields · 3.3 mi
- DA-06-39-310Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- CARSON COUNTY FEEDYARDCAFO · 7.1 mi
- AMERICAN PIPELINE BURNETT NO 2Brownfields · 7.8 mi
- AMERICAN PIPELINE BURNETT NO 1Brownfields · 7.8 mi
- AMERICAN PIPELINE CRAWFORDBrownfields · 7.8 mi
- AMERICAN PIPELINE KINGSMILLBrownfields · 7.8 mi
- AMERICAN PIPELINE SCHAFER PLANTBrownfields · 7.8 mi
- CELANESE LTDBrownfields · 7.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from White Deer'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 White Deer.
Total Sites
29
within ~10 miles of White Deer
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of White Deer
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of White Deer
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around White Deer, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of White Deer. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in White Deer
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 White Deer average
Your land is one point inside White Deer
Everything above resolves to White Deer as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 White Deer Average
White Deer Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across White Deer
- ●One soil character for all of White Deer
- ●Frost dates read at White Deer's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not White Deer's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in White Deer
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in White Deer, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that White Deer averages can't show:
We read public map data around White Deer — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the White Deer average
How we know this about White Deer
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 White Deer’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 White Deer
When does frost risk typically end in White Deer?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in White Deer typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in White Deer?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in White Deer typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 216 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in White Deer?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, White Deer sees about 216 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 21, about 181 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in White Deer?
The federal record around White Deer shows 29 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (12), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 White Deer?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at White Deer's scale — its 7a band and its 216-day season. Your yard writes its own version of White Deer'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 White Deer’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at White Deer's own scale — its own ~216-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,114 acres it covers and 29 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- White Deer's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- White Deer's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 4 and the ~216-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 29 documented contamination sites on the federal record near White Deer, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- White Deer's boundary and the 1,114 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~216-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at White Deer's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so White Deer's 1,114 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carson 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 Carson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among White Deer's 1,114 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of White Deer you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,114 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 White Deer-wide figureread your own land →