Kaibab Estates West, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kaibab Estates West, 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 Kaibab Estates West lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kaibab Estates West — the short answer
Kaibab Estates West, Arizona: USDA zone 7b, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 14K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 14K 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 Kaibab Estates West's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kaibab Estates West's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kaibab Estates West
Each reading below is measured for Kaibab Estates West itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKaibab Estates West runs about 198 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
MeasuredKaibab Estates West 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 Kaibab Estates West is in
Kaibab Estates West sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Kaibab Estates West'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 Kaibab Estates West
Every plant below cleared Kaibab Estates West's own zone 7b and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kaibab Estates West?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Kaibab Estates West
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kaibab Estates West. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DUNBAR STONE CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- FERNOW ROUTE 66 SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- SANTA FE MECHANICAL FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- KAIBAB REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- SHAMROCK STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- FELTON'S AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- ADOT - ASH FORKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- ASH FORK QUICK LUBEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- INTERSTATE MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #9385Brownfields · 3.7 mi
- CORRAL MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kaibab Estates West'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 Kaibab Estates West.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kaibab Estates West
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kaibab Estates West
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Kaibab Estates West
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Your land is one point inside Kaibab Estates West
Everything above resolves to Kaibab Estates West as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 14K 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 Kaibab Estates West Average
Kaibab Estates West Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Kaibab Estates West
- ●One soil character for all of Kaibab Estates West
- ●Frost dates read at Kaibab Estates West's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kaibab Estates West's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kaibab Estates West
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kaibab Estates West, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kaibab Estates West averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kaibab Estates West — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kaibab Estates West average
How we know this about Kaibab Estates West
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 Kaibab Estates West’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 Kaibab Estates West
When does frost risk typically end in Kaibab Estates West?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kaibab Estates West typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Kaibab Estates West?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kaibab Estates West typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kaibab Estates West?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kaibab Estates West sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 17, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kaibab Estates West?
The federal record around Kaibab Estates West is light — 23 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (15), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.4 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Kaibab Estates West?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kaibab Estates West's scale — its 7b band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kaibab Estates West'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 Kaibab Estates West’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kaibab Estates West's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 14,470 acres it covers and 23 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kaibab Estates West's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kaibab Estates West's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 31 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 23 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kaibab Estates West, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kaibab Estates West's boundary and the 14,470 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Kaibab Estates West 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 Kaibab Estates West's 14,470 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 Kaibab Estates West's 14,470 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kaibab Estates West you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 14,470 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.4 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 Kaibab Estates West-wide figureread your own land →