Munds Park, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Munds Park, 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 Munds Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Munds Park — the short answer
Munds Park, Arizona: USDA zone 6b, about 160 days between hard freezes, across 14K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~160
- 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 6b is Munds Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Munds Park's 160-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Munds Park
Each reading below is measured for Munds Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMunds Park 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
MeasuredMunds Park 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 Munds Park is in
Munds Park sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Munds Park'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 Munds Park
Every plant below cleared Munds Park'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 Munds Park?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Munds Park
Survey cells within 31 miles of Munds Park 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 Munds Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Munds Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PINEWOOD COUNTRY CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- A-18-07 15CCC1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- A-18-07 15CCC2Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- A-18-07 15CCB2Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- WOODYS FOOD STORE #137Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- SHELL #21Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MUNDS PARK CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- FOXBORO PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- ADOT - LITTLE ANTELOPEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- A-18-07 27CBBNitrate · 2.0 mi
- A-18-07 08DDCNitrate · 2.6 mi
- ARIZONA WATER CO - PINEWOODPFAS · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Munds Park'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 Munds Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Munds Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Munds Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Munds Park, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 28 sites within ~10 miles of Munds Park. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Munds Park
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Your land is one point inside Munds Park
Everything above resolves to Munds Park 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 Munds Park Average
Munds Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Munds Park
- ●One soil character for all of Munds Park
- ●Frost dates read at Munds Park's scale: May 12 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Munds Park's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Munds Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Munds Park, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Munds Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Munds Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Munds Park average
How we know this about Munds Park
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 Munds Park’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 Munds Park
When does frost risk typically end in Munds Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Munds Park typically lands around May 12, 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 Jun 2.
When is the first frost in Munds Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Munds Park typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 160 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Munds Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Munds Park sees about 160 frost-free days — roughly May 12 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 2 to Oct 5, about 125 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Munds Park?
The federal record around Munds Park shows 52 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (28), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Munds Park?
From about Sep 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 Oct 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Munds Park's scale — its 6b band and its 160-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Munds Park'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 Munds Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Munds Park's own scale — its own ~160-day season between 28°F freezes, the 14,238 acres it covers and 52 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Munds Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Munds Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 12 and Oct 19 and the ~160-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 52 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Munds Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Munds Park's boundary and the 14,238 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~160-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Munds Park sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Munds Park 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 Munds Park's 14,238 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 Munds Park's 14,238 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Munds Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 14,238 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Munds Park-wide figureread your own land →