East Globe, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in East Globe, 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 East Globe lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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East Globe — the short answer
East Globe, Arizona: USDA zone 9a, about 295 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~295
- 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 9a is East Globe's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against East Globe's 295-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in East Globe
Each reading below is measured for East Globe itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEast Globe runs about 295 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEast Globe sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 East Globe is in
East Globe sits in the Sonoran Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at East Globe's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Gila County is mostly Arizona/New Mexico Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in East Globe
Every plant below cleared East Globe's own zone 9a and its 295-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in East Globe?
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 Jan 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
Documented around East Globe
Survey cells within 31 miles of East Globe checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 374 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near East Globe
Closest first, within ~10 miles of East Globe. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GLOBE PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- MOUNTAIN VIEW MOBILE HOME ESTATESSuperfund · 2.2 mi
- SUNCHIEF MILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- FAA GLOBE RMLRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- UPS GLOBEBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- CIRCLE K #2700423Underground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- R-DELSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #5102Brownfields · 4.1 mi
- ADOT - GLOBE MAINTENANCE CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- PINAL LUMBER INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- APACHE DRIVE-IN THEATERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- BAIT SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from East Globe'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 East Globe.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of East Globe
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of East Globe
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around East Globe, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of East Globe — Mining (82 sites) and Superfund (8 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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Your land is one point inside East Globe
Everything above resolves to East Globe 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 East Globe Average
East Globe Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across East Globe
- ●One soil character for all of East Globe
- ●Frost dates read at East Globe's scale: Feb 10 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not East Globe's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in East Globe
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in East Globe, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that East Globe averages can't show:
We read public map data around East Globe — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the East Globe average
How we know this about East Globe
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 East Globe’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 East Globe
When does frost risk typically end in East Globe?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in East Globe typically lands around Feb 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 Mar 3.
When is the first frost in East Globe?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in East Globe typically arrives around Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 18, so the watching starts about Nov 2 — about 295 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in East Globe?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, East Globe sees about 295 frost-free days — roughly Feb 10 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 3 to Nov 18, about 260 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in East Globe?
The federal record around East Globe runs heavier than most — 183 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (82), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 2.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in East Globe?
From about Nov 2 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 Dec 2 (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 Dec 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at East Globe's scale — its 9a band and its 295-day season. Your yard writes its own version of East Globe'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 East Globe’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at East Globe's own scale — its own ~295-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,161 acres it covers and 183 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- East Globe's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- East Globe's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 10 and Dec 2 and the ~295-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 183 documented contamination sites on the federal record near East Globe, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 2.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- East Globe's boundary and the 2,161 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~295-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- East Globe sits in the Sonoran Basin and Range — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around East Globe checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so East Globe's 2,161 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gila County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gila 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 Gila County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among East Globe's 2,161 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of East Globe you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,161 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 2.1 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 East Globe-wide figureread your own land →
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