Centennial Park, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Centennial Park, 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 Centennial Park 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 Centennial Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Centennial Park — the short answer
Centennial Park, Arizona: USDA zone 7b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- 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 7b is Centennial Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Centennial Park's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Centennial Park
Each reading below is measured for Centennial Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCentennial Park runs about 211 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
MeasuredCentennial Park 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 Centennial Park is in
Centennial Park sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Centennial Park'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 Centennial Park
Every plant below cleared Centennial Park's own zone 7b and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Centennial Park?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Centennial Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Centennial Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- B-41-06 06BADNitrate · 2.3 mi
- DEZERETA INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- R & W EXCAVATING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- B-42-06 31CCCNitrate · 2.7 mi
- BRENTWOOD IND. INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 3.5 mi
- FORESTWOOD INDUSTRIAL INCToxics Release Inventory · 3.5 mi
- HAMMON TRUCKING, INC.Brownfields · 3.8 mi
- ChanceMining · 7.5 mi
- RainbowMining · 9.1 mi
- HILDALE - COLORADO CITYPFAS · 9.2 mi
- Caliente #5Mining · 9.5 mi
Measured from Centennial Park'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 Centennial Park.
Total Sites
13
within ~10 miles of Centennial Park
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Centennial Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Centennial Park
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Centennial Park
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 Centennial Park average
Your land is one point inside Centennial Park
Everything above resolves to Centennial Park 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 Centennial Park Average
Centennial Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Centennial Park
- ●One soil character for all of Centennial Park
- ●Frost dates read at Centennial Park's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Centennial Park's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Centennial Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Centennial Park, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Centennial Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Centennial Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Centennial Park average
How we know this about Centennial Park
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 Centennial Park’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 Centennial Park
When does frost risk typically end in Centennial Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Centennial Park typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Centennial Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Centennial Park typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Centennial Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Centennial Park sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 20, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Centennial Park?
The federal record around Centennial Park shows 13 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (4), the nearest Nitrate record about 2.3 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 Centennial Park?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Centennial Park's scale — its 7b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Centennial Park'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 Centennial Park’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Centennial Park's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,385 acres it covers and 13 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Centennial Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Centennial Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 3 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 13 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Centennial Park, the closest Nitrate record about 2.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Centennial Park's boundary and the 1,385 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Centennial Park 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 Centennial Park's 1,385 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 Centennial Park's 1,385 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Centennial Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,385 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 2.3 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 Centennial Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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