Mojave Ranch Estates, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Mojave Ranch Estates, 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 Mojave Ranch Estates lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mojave Ranch Estates — the short answer
Mojave Ranch Estates, Arizona: USDA zone 9a, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 479 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- Mohave County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- Mohave County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- Mohave County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 479 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Mohave County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Mojave Ranch Estates's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mojave Ranch Estates's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mojave Ranch Estates
Each reading below is measured for Mojave Ranch Estates itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMojave Ranch Estates runs about 242 days between hard freezes (read from Mohave County, the closest normal to Mojave Ranch Estates) — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMojave Ranch Estates 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 Mojave Ranch Estates is in
Mojave Ranch Estates sits in the Mojave Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Mojave Ranch Estates's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mohave County.
What Grows in Mojave Ranch Estates
Every plant below cleared Mojave Ranch Estates's own zone 9a and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mojave Ranch Estates?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Mojave Ranch Estates
Survey cells within 31 miles of Mojave Ranch Estates checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 193 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mojave Ranch Estates
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mojave Ranch Estates. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BARTCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- B-18-22 27BBC1Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- HANCOCK FARMS IIUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- FORT MOJAVE BATTERY REMOVAL ACTION.Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- MOHAVE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- PARCEL 225-27-128Underground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- RIVER VALLEY TAVERNUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- A TO Z COLLISIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #10037Brownfields · 3.6 mi
- HARTER FARMS LLCBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- MOHAVE MARKET PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- AT&T MOBILITYBrownfields · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mojave Ranch Estates'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 Mojave Ranch Estates.
Total Sites
138
within ~10 miles of Mojave Ranch Estates
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mojave Ranch Estates
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mojave Ranch Estates
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mojave Ranch Estates, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mojave Ranch Estates — Mining (12 sites) and Brownfields (72 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Mojave Ranch Estates
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 Mojave Ranch Estates average
Your land is one point inside Mojave Ranch Estates
Everything above resolves to Mojave Ranch Estates as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 479 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Mohave County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Mojave Ranch Estates Average
Mojave Ranch Estates Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Mojave Ranch Estates
- ●One soil character for all of Mojave Ranch Estates
- ●Frost dates read at Mojave Ranch Estates's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mojave Ranch Estates's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mojave Ranch Estates
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mojave Ranch Estates, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mojave Ranch Estates averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mojave Ranch Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mojave Ranch Estates average
How we know this about Mojave Ranch Estates
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 Mohave County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Mojave Ranch Estates
When does frost risk typically end in Mojave Ranch Estates?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mojave Ranch Estates typically lands around Mar 21, 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 Apr 11.
When is the first frost in Mojave Ranch Estates?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mojave Ranch Estates typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mojave Ranch Estates?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mojave Ranch Estates sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Nov 4, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mojave Ranch Estates?
The federal record around Mojave Ranch Estates shows 138 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (72), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.8 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 Mojave Ranch Estates?
From about Oct 19 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 Nov 18 (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 Nov 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mojave Ranch Estates's scale — its 9a band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mojave Ranch Estates'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 Mojave Ranch Estates’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mojave Ranch Estates's own scale — the 479 acres it covers and 138 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mojave Ranch Estates's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 138 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mojave Ranch Estates, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mojave Ranch Estates's boundary and the 479 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mojave Ranch Estates's own centroid, the Mojave Basin and RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Mojave Ranch Estates checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Mojave Ranch Estates has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Mohave County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mojave Ranch Estates's 479 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 Mojave Ranch Estates's 479 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mojave Ranch Estates you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 479 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.8 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 Mojave Ranch Estates-wide figureread your own land →
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