Wildorado, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Wildorado, 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 Wildorado 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 Wildorado — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Wildorado — the short answer
Wildorado, Texas: USDA zone 7a, about 203 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~203
- 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 7a is Wildorado's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wildorado's 203-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wildorado
Each reading below is measured for Wildorado itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWildorado runs about 203 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
MeasuredWildorado 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 Wildorado is in
Wildorado sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Wildorado's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Oldham County is mostly Southwestern Tablelands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Wildorado
Every plant below cleared Wildorado's own zone 7a and its 203-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wildorado?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — 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 Wildorado
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wildorado. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HELMS ESTATEUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- FORT WILDORADOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- QUALITY BEEF PRODUCERSCAFO · 1.4 mi
- TASCOSA FEEDYARDCAFO · 6.6 mi
- TASCOSA FEEDYARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
- PALO DURO KEYLOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- CONSERVATION & PRODUCTION RESEARCH LABUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
- PAK-A-SAK 16Underground Storage Tanks · 8.2 mi
- CONSERVATION & PRODUCTION RESEARCH LABSuperfund · 8.3 mi
- AMARILLO MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEMPFAS · 9.8 mi
Measured from Wildorado'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 Wildorado.
Total Sites
11
within ~10 miles of Wildorado
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wildorado
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wildorado
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
- •PFAS do not break down in groundwater. Irrigate from a tested source.
Check your specific parcel in Wildorado
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 Wildorado average
Your land is one point inside Wildorado
Everything above resolves to Wildorado 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 Wildorado Average
Wildorado Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Wildorado
- ●One soil character for all of Wildorado
- ●Frost dates read at Wildorado's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wildorado's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wildorado
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wildorado, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wildorado averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wildorado — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wildorado average
How we know this about Wildorado
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 Wildorado’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 Wildorado
When does frost risk typically end in Wildorado?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wildorado typically lands around Apr 10, 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 May 1.
When is the first frost in Wildorado?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wildorado typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 203 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wildorado?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wildorado sees about 203 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 16, about 168 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wildorado?
The federal record around Wildorado is a meaningful one — 11 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Wildorado?
From about Sep 30 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 Oct 30 (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 Oct 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wildorado's scale — its 7a band and its 203-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wildorado'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 Wildorado’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wildorado's own scale — its own ~203-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,505 acres it covers and 11 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wildorado's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wildorado's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 30 and the ~203-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 11 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wildorado, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wildorado's boundary and the 1,505 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~203-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Wildorado sits in the High 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 Wildorado's 1,505 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Oldham County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Oldham 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 Oldham County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wildorado's 1,505 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wildorado you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,505 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 Wildorado-wide figureread your own land →
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