Kachina Village, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — 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 Kachina 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 Kachina 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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Kachina Village — the short answer
Kachina Village, Arizona: USDA zone 6b, about 160 days between hard freezes, across 750 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~160
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 750 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 Kachina Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kachina Village's 160-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kachina Village
Each reading below is measured for Kachina Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKachina Village runs about 160 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
MeasuredKachina 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 Kachina Village is in
Kachina Village sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Kachina 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 Kachina Village
Every plant below cleared Kachina Village's own zone 6b and its 160-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kachina Village?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Kachina Village
Survey cells within 31 miles of Kachina Village checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 341 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kachina Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kachina Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KACHINA VILLAGE FIRE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- A-20-07 30BBCNitrate · 1800 ft
- PIC-N-RUN INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- A-20-07 20CCANitrate · 0.8 mi
- A-20-06 24ABBNitrate · 1.0 mi
- A-20-07 28BCCNitrate · 1.7 mi
- CASEY, DOUGLAS & COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- PAGE SHORES FESTIVAL VENUEBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- PEABODY PULLIAM AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- CITY OF FLAGSTAFF - PULLIAM AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- A-20-06 11BDCNitrate · 3.3 mi
- SWIFT TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kachina 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 Kachina Village.
Total Sites
283
within ~10 miles of Kachina Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kachina Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kachina Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kachina Village, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 176 sites within ~10 miles of Kachina Village. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Kachina Village
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 Kachina Village average
Your land is one point inside Kachina Village
Everything above resolves to Kachina Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 750 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 Kachina Village Average
Kachina Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Kachina Village
- ●One soil character for all of Kachina Village
- ●Frost dates read at Kachina Village's scale: May 9 to Oct 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kachina Village's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kachina Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kachina Village, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kachina Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kachina Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kachina Village average
How we know this about Kachina 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 Kachina 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 Kachina Village
When does frost risk typically end in Kachina Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kachina Village typically lands around May 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Kachina Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kachina Village typically arrives around Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 2, so the watching starts about Sep 16 — about 160 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kachina Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kachina Village sees about 160 frost-free days — roughly May 9 through Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 30 to Oct 2, about 125 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kachina Village?
The federal record around Kachina Village is a meaningful one — 283 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (176), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Kachina Village?
From about Sep 16 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kachina Village's scale — its 6b band and its 160-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kachina 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 Kachina Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kachina Village's own scale — its own ~160-day season between 28°F freezes, the 750 acres it covers and 283 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kachina Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kachina Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 9 and Oct 16 and the ~160-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 283 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kachina Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kachina Village's boundary and the 750 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~160-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Kachina Village sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Kachina Village 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 Kachina Village's 750 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 Kachina Village's 750 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kachina 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 750 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Kachina Village-wide figureread your own land →