Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kykotsmovi 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 Kykotsmovi 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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Kykotsmovi Village — the short answer
Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona: USDA zone 7a, about 195 days between hard freezes, across 11K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~195
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 11K 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 7a is Kykotsmovi Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kykotsmovi Village's 195-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kykotsmovi Village
Each reading below is measured for Kykotsmovi Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKykotsmovi Village runs about 195 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
MeasuredKykotsmovi Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Kykotsmovi Village is in
Kykotsmovi Village sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Kykotsmovi Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Navajo County.
What Grows in Kykotsmovi Village
Every plant below cleared Kykotsmovi Village's own zone 7a and its 195-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kykotsmovi Village?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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 Kykotsmovi Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kykotsmovi Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Windmil 63S01Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 06 095-07.62X11.77Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- 06 095-11.23X12.11Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- 06 095-07.28X08.90 Kykotsmovi PM2Nitrate · 4.4 mi
- HOPI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTERBrownfields · 5.1 mi
- 06 095-06.62X08.44Nitrate · 5.2 mi
- 06 095-06.34X08.54 [PM3 KYKOTSMOVI]Nitrate · 5.2 mi
- 06 095-05.69X08.52Nitrate · 5.5 mi
- 06 095-04.25X16.42Nitrate · 5.6 mi
- 06 114-08.53X01.87Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- Windmill 62B6Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- 06 095-03.85X09.21Nitrate · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kykotsmovi 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 Kykotsmovi Village.
Total Sites
69
within ~10 miles of Kykotsmovi Village
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 brownfield site
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kykotsmovi Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kykotsmovi Village, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 68 sites within ~10 miles of Kykotsmovi Village. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Kykotsmovi 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 Kykotsmovi Village average
Your land is one point inside Kykotsmovi Village
Everything above resolves to Kykotsmovi Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 11K 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 Kykotsmovi Village Average
Kykotsmovi Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Kykotsmovi Village
- ●One soil character for all of Kykotsmovi Village
- ●Frost dates read at Kykotsmovi Village's scale: Apr 17 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kykotsmovi Village's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kykotsmovi Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kykotsmovi Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kykotsmovi Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kykotsmovi Village average
How we know this about Kykotsmovi 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 Kykotsmovi 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 Kykotsmovi Village
When does frost risk typically end in Kykotsmovi Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kykotsmovi Village typically lands around Apr 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 May 8.
When is the first frost in Kykotsmovi Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kykotsmovi Village typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 195 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kykotsmovi Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kykotsmovi Village sees about 195 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 15, about 160 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kykotsmovi Village?
The federal record around Kykotsmovi Village shows 69 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (68), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.7 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 Kykotsmovi Village?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kykotsmovi Village's scale — its 7a band and its 195-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kykotsmovi 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 Kykotsmovi Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kykotsmovi Village's own scale — its own ~195-day season between 28°F freezes, the 10,829 acres it covers and 69 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kykotsmovi Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kykotsmovi Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Oct 29 and the ~195-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 69 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kykotsmovi Village, the closest Nitrate record about 1.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kykotsmovi Village's boundary and the 10,829 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~195-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kykotsmovi Village's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kykotsmovi Village's 10,829 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Navajo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Navajo 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 Navajo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kykotsmovi Village's 10,829 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kykotsmovi 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 10,829 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.7 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 Kykotsmovi Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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