Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Grand Canyon Village, 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 Grand Canyon Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Grand Canyon Village — the short answer
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona: USDA zone 6b, about 165 days between hard freezes, across 17K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~165
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 17K 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 6b is Grand Canyon Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Grand Canyon Village's 165-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Grand Canyon Village
Each reading below is measured for Grand Canyon Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGrand Canyon Village runs about 165 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredGrand Canyon Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Grand Canyon Village is in
Grand Canyon Village sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Grand Canyon Village's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Coconino County is mostly Arizona/New Mexico Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Grand Canyon Village
Every plant below cleared Grand Canyon Village's own zone 6b and its 165-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Grand Canyon Village?
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 Apr 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
What's on the federal record near Grand Canyon Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Grand Canyon Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GRAND CANYON SOUTH RIM WWTPToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- Orphan Lode MineMining · 0.9 mi
- USDOI NPS - SOUTH RIM POWERHOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- USDOI NPS - GRAND CANYON SOUTH RIM MAINTENANCE AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- GRAND CANYON LODGESBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK LODGESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- GRAND CANYON HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- GRAND CANYON - SOUTH RIM MAINTENANCE YARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- GRAND CANYON - SOUTH RIM MAINTENANCE YARDBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- USDOI NPS - GRAND CANYON - SOUTH RIM MAINTENANCE FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- USDOI- NPS -INDIAN GARDENS PUMP STATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Grand Canyon Village'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 Grand Canyon Village.
Total Sites
39
within ~10 miles of Grand Canyon Village
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Grand Canyon Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Grand Canyon Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Grand Canyon Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Grand Canyon Village — Mining (5 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (3 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Grand Canyon Village
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Grand Canyon Village
Everything above resolves to Grand Canyon Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 17K 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 Grand Canyon Village Average
Grand Canyon Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Grand Canyon Village
- ●One soil character for all of Grand Canyon Village
- ●Frost dates read at Grand Canyon Village's scale: May 8 to Oct 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Grand Canyon Village's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Grand Canyon Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Grand Canyon Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Grand Canyon Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Grand Canyon Village average
How we know this about Grand Canyon Village
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 Grand Canyon Village’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 Grand Canyon Village
When does frost risk typically end in Grand Canyon Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Grand Canyon Village typically lands around May 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Grand Canyon Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Grand Canyon Village typically arrives around Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 6, so the watching starts about Sep 20 — about 165 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Grand Canyon Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Grand Canyon Village sees about 165 frost-free days — roughly May 8 through Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 29 to Oct 6, about 130 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Grand Canyon Village?
The federal record around Grand Canyon Village shows 39 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (19), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.8 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 Grand Canyon Village?
From about Sep 20 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Grand Canyon Village's scale — its 6b band and its 165-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Grand Canyon Village'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 Grand Canyon Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Grand Canyon Village's own scale — its own ~165-day season between 28°F freezes, the 17,012 acres it covers and 39 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Grand Canyon Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Grand Canyon Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 8 and Oct 20 and the ~165-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 39 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Grand Canyon Village, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Grand Canyon Village's boundary and the 17,012 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~165-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Grand Canyon Village sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Grand Canyon Village's 17,012 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Coconino County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Coconino 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 Coconino County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Grand Canyon Village's 17,012 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Grand Canyon Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 17,012 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.8 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 Grand Canyon Village-wide figureread your own land →