Cane Beds, Arizona, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Cane Beds, 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 Cane Beds lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cane Beds — the short answer
Cane Beds, Arizona: USDA zone 7a, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Cane Beds's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cane Beds's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cane Beds
Each reading below is measured for Cane Beds itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCane Beds runs about 202 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
MeasuredCane Beds 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 Cane Beds is in
Cane Beds sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Cane Beds's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Mohave County is mostly Mojave Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Cane Beds
Every plant below cleared Cane Beds's own zone 7a and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cane Beds?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Cane Beds
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cane Beds. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ChanceMining · 4.9 mi
- DEZERETA INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- R & W EXCAVATING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- B-41-06 06BADNitrate · 5.4 mi
- B-42-06 31CCCNitrate · 5.9 mi
- RainbowMining · 6.3 mi
- BRENTWOOD IND. INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 6.7 mi
- FORESTWOOD INDUSTRIAL INCToxics Release Inventory · 6.9 mi
- HAMMON TRUCKING, INC.Brownfields · 7.1 mi
- TRIBE SM IRRIGATION WELLNitrate · 7.9 mi
- B-41-04 19CDC UNSURV [PVC Well]Nitrate · 8.0 mi
- B-41-04 31DBBNitrate · 8.2 mi
4 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cane Beds'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 Cane Beds.
Total Sites
25
within ~10 miles of Cane Beds
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cane Beds
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cane Beds
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cane Beds, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Cane Beds. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Cane Beds
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 Cane Beds average
Your land is one point inside Cane Beds
Everything above resolves to Cane Beds as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Cane Beds Average
Cane Beds Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Cane Beds
- ●One soil character for all of Cane Beds
- ●Frost dates read at Cane Beds's scale: Apr 12 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cane Beds's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cane Beds
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cane Beds, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cane Beds averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cane Beds — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cane Beds average
How we know this about Cane Beds
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 Cane Beds’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 Cane Beds
When does frost risk typically end in Cane Beds?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cane Beds typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Cane Beds?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cane Beds typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cane Beds?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cane Beds sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 17, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cane Beds?
The federal record around Cane Beds is light — 25 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (18), the nearest Mining record about 4.9 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 Cane Beds?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cane Beds's scale — its 7a band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cane Beds'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 Cane Beds’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cane Beds's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,302 acres it covers and 25 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cane Beds's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cane Beds's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Oct 31 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 25 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cane Beds, the closest Mining record about 4.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cane Beds's boundary and the 5,302 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Cane Beds sits in the Colorado Plateaus — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cane Beds's 5,302 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mohave County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mohave County
- The growing challenges every Arizona grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Arizona
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Mohave County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cane Beds's 5,302 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cane Beds you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,302 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining record about 4.9 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 Cane Beds-wide figureread your own land →
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