Meadview, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Meadview, 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 Meadview lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Meadview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Meadview — the short answer
Meadview, Arizona: USDA zone 9a, about 297 days between hard freezes, across 20K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~297
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 20K 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 9a is Meadview's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Meadview's 297-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Meadview
Each reading below is measured for Meadview itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMeadview runs about 297 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMeadview sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Meadview is in
Meadview sits in the Mojave Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Meadview's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mohave County.
What Grows in Meadview
Every plant below cleared Meadview's own zone 9a and its 297-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Meadview?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Meadview
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Meadview. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MEADVIEW UNIT THREEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MEADVIEW AUTO AND MARINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- B-30-17 23CCB2Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- Climax MineMining · 1.9 mi
- MidgetMining · 2.5 mi
- B-29-17 11DDD1Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- GAS-N-GRUB VIUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- B-30-16 07ADC1Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- Golden MileMining · 4.3 mi
- B-29-17 23CCB3Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- B-29-17 23CCB1Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- LMC STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
4 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Meadview'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 Meadview.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Meadview
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Meadview
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Meadview
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 Meadview average
Your land is one point inside Meadview
Everything above resolves to Meadview as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 20K 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 Meadview Average
Meadview Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Meadview
- ●One soil character for all of Meadview
- ●Frost dates read at Meadview's scale: Feb 9 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Meadview's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Meadview
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We read public map data around Meadview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Meadview average
How we know this about Meadview
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 Meadview’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 Meadview
When does frost risk typically end in Meadview?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Meadview typically lands around Feb 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 Mar 2.
When is the first frost in Meadview?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Meadview typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 297 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Meadview?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Meadview sees about 297 frost-free days — roughly Feb 9 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 2 to Nov 19, about 262 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Meadview?
The federal record around Meadview shows 23 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (14), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Meadview?
From about Nov 3 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 Dec 3 (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 Dec 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Meadview's scale — its 9a band and its 297-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Meadview'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 Meadview’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Meadview's own scale — its own ~297-day season between 28°F freezes, the 19,864 acres it covers and 23 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Meadview's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Meadview's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 9 and Dec 3 and the ~297-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 23 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Meadview, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Meadview's boundary and the 19,864 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~297-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Meadview's own centroid, the Mojave Basin and RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Meadview's 19,864 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mohave County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mohave 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 Mohave County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Meadview's 19,864 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Meadview you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 19,864 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Meadview-wide figureread your own land →
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