Pine, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, 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 Pine, 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 Pine lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pine — the short answer
Pine, Arizona: USDA zone 7b, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 21K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- 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
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 21K 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 7b is Pine's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pine
Each reading below is measured for Pine itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPine runs about 222 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
MeasuredPine sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Pine is in
Pine sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Pine's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gila County.
What Grows in Pine
Every plant below cleared Pine's own zone 7b and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pine?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Pine
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pine checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 339 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pine
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STRIPES LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- PINE STRAWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GILA COUNTY - MAINTENANCE - PINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- UNCLE TOM'S KWIK STOP 1029Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PINE STRAWBERRY DWIDPFAS · 1.0 mi
- A-12-08 25DBD2Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- A-12-08 25ADDNitrate · 1.3 mi
- A-12-09 30BBC1Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- STRAWBERRY AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- A-12-08 27BBCNitrate · 2.6 mi
- A-12-09 19BACNitrate · 2.7 mi
- A-12-08 22CCANitrate · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine'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 Pine.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pine, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pine — Mining (9 sites) and Nitrate (18 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Pine
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 Pine average
Your land is one point inside Pine
Everything above resolves to Pine as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 21K 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 Pine Average
Pine Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Pine
- ●One soil character for all of Pine
- ●Frost dates read at Pine's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pine
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pine averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pine — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine average
How we know this about Pine
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 Pine’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 Pine
When does frost risk typically end in Pine?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pine typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Pine?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pine 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 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pine?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pine sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 29, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pine?
The federal record around Pine shows 37 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (18), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Pine?
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 Pine's scale — its 7b band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pine'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 Pine’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pine's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 20,745 acres it covers and 37 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pine's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 12 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 37 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine's boundary and the 20,745 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pine's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pine 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 Pine's 20,745 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gila County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gila 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 Gila County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pine's 20,745 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 20,745 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Pine-wide figureread your own land →