Greer, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Greer, 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 Greer lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Greer — the short answer
Greer, Arizona: USDA zone 6a, about 145 days between hard freezes, across 338 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~145
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 338 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 6a is Greer's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greer's 145-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greer
Each reading below is measured for Greer itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreer runs about 145 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredGreer sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Greer is in
Greer sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Greer's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Apache County is mostly Arizona/New Mexico Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Greer
Every plant below cleared Greer's own zone 6a and its 145-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Greer?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Short seasons reward decisiveness — quick-maturing varieties late, hardy greens under cover, and next year’s garlic in the ground before it closes.
What's on the federal record near Greer
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greer. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CIRCLE B MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- ADOT - SHEEPSPRING MAINTENANCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- 79522Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- 79521Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- BIG LAKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- EAGAR TOWN OFPFAS · 6.3 mi
- AT&T - GREERUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- 79526Nitrate · 7.1 mi
- 79525Nitrate · 8.7 mi
- 79523Nitrate · 9.1 mi
- USDA FS - APACHE SITGREAVES NF - BIG LAKE MULTI-FAMILY CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.3 mi
Measured from Greer'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 Greer.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greer
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greer
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •PFAS do not break down in groundwater. Irrigate from a tested source.
Check your specific parcel in Greer
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 Greer
Everything above resolves to Greer as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 338 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 Greer Average
Greer Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Greer
- ●One soil character for all of Greer
- ●Frost dates read at Greer's scale: May 17 to Oct 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greer's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greer
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We read public map data around Greer — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Greer
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 Greer’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 Greer
When does frost risk typically end in Greer?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greer typically lands around May 17, 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 Jun 7.
When is the first frost in Greer?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greer typically arrives around Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 25, so the watching starts about Sep 9 — about 145 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greer?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greer sees about 145 frost-free days — roughly May 17 through Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 7 to Sep 25, about 110 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greer?
The federal record around Greer shows 16 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (10), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 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 gardeners stretch the season in Greer?
With about 145 frost-free days between hard freezes, Greer rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 173 to 201 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 17 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Greer's scale — its 6a band and its 145-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greer'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 Greer’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Greer's own scale — its own ~145-day season between 28°F freezes, the 338 acres it covers and 16 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greer's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greer's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 17 and Oct 9 and the ~145-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 16 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greer, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greer's boundary and the 338 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~145-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Greer 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 Greer's 338 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Apache County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Apache 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 Apache County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greer's 338 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greer you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 338 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 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 Greer-wide figureread your own land →
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