Peach Springs, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Peach Springs, 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 Peach Springs 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 Peach Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Peach Springs — the short answer
Peach Springs, Arizona: USDA zone 8a, about 230 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~230
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 8a is Peach Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Peach Springs's 230-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Peach Springs
Each reading below is measured for Peach Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPeach Springs runs about 230 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredPeach Springs sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Peach Springs is in
Peach Springs sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Peach Springs's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Mohave County is mostly Mojave Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Peach Springs
Every plant below cleared Peach Springs's own zone 8a and its 230-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Peach Springs?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Peach Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Peach Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Natural Resources WellNitrate · 0.6 mi
- PEACH SPRINGS HEALTH CENTERBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- HUALAPAI TRANSFER STATIONBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- Truxton Well (PDC#2)Nitrate · 6.4 mi
- LHOIST NORTH AMERICA NELSON LIME PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 6.7 mi
- NELSON PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- ADOT - TRUXTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.7 mi
- TRUXTON AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- B-24-12 09AADNitrate · 7.9 mi
- TRUXTON CHEVRON - FORMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.0 mi
- DOUBLE SIX STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.0 mi
- FRONTIER LOUNGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.0 mi
Measured from Peach Springs'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 Peach Springs.
Total Sites
15
within ~10 miles of Peach Springs
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Peach Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Peach Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Peach Springs
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 Peach Springs average
Your land is one point inside Peach Springs
Everything above resolves to Peach Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Peach Springs Average
Peach Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Peach Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Peach Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Peach Springs's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Peach Springs's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Peach Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Peach Springs, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Peach Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Peach Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Peach Springs average
How we know this about Peach Springs
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 Peach Springs’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 Peach Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Peach Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Peach Springs typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Peach Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Peach Springs typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 230 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Peach Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Peach Springs sees about 230 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 29, about 195 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Peach Springs?
The federal record around Peach Springs is light — 15 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (6), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Peach Springs?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Peach Springs's scale — its 8a band and its 230-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Peach Springs'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 Peach Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Peach Springs's own scale — its own ~230-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,065 acres it covers and 15 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Peach Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Peach Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 12 and the ~230-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 15 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Peach Springs, the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Peach Springs's boundary and the 5,065 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~230-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Peach Springs sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Peach Springs's 5,065 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 Peach Springs's 5,065 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Peach Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,065 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Peach Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across ArizonaPeach Springs sits outside our named growing regions, so Arizona as a whole is its closest context here.