Wolfforth, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Wolfforth, 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 Wolfforth lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wolfforth — the short answer
Wolfforth, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~234
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 3K 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 Wolfforth's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wolfforth's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wolfforth
Each reading below is measured for Wolfforth itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWolfforth runs about 234 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
MeasuredWolfforth 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 Wolfforth is in
Wolfforth sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Wolfforth's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lubbock County.
What Grows in Wolfforth
Every plant below cleared Wolfforth's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wolfforth?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — 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 Wolfforth
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wolfforth. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MCLAIN OIL 17Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- HARRIS & THRUSHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- LUBBOCK AND WESTERN RAILWAYBrownfields · 2200 ft
- KWICK FOODMART TURBO GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- YESWAY 1122Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- LUBBOCK YARDBrownfields · 2500 ft
- O K KWIK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- LLANO WASTEBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- JJS FAST STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- YESWAY 1158Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- STRIPES 5207Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- FIRST CLASS ENVIRONMENTALBrownfields · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wolfforth'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 Wolfforth.
Total Sites
520
within ~10 miles of Wolfforth
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wolfforth
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wolfforth
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wolfforth, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 422 sites within ~10 miles of Wolfforth. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Wolfforth
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 Wolfforth average
Your land is one point inside Wolfforth
Everything above resolves to Wolfforth as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 city 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 Wolfforth Average
Wolfforth Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Wolfforth
- ●One soil character for all of Wolfforth
- ●Frost dates read at Wolfforth's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wolfforth's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wolfforth
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wolfforth, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wolfforth averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wolfforth — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wolfforth average
How we know this about Wolfforth
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Wolfforth’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Wolfforth
When does frost risk typically end in Wolfforth?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wolfforth typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Wolfforth?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wolfforth typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wolfforth?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wolfforth sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 30, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wolfforth?
The federal record around Wolfforth is a meaningful one — 520 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (422), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Wolfforth?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wolfforth's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wolfforth'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 Wolfforth’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wolfforth's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,112 acres it covers and 520 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wolfforth's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wolfforth's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 13 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 520 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wolfforth, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wolfforth's boundary and the 3,112 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wolfforth's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wolfforth's 3,112 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lubbock County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lubbock 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 Lubbock County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wolfforth's 3,112 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wolfforth you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,112 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Wolfforth-wide figureread your own land →