Pine Lake, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pine Lake, 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 Lake 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 Pine Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pine Lake — the short answer
Pine Lake, Arizona: USDA zone 8a, about 197 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~197
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Pine Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Lake's 197-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pine Lake
Each reading below is measured for Pine Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPine Lake runs about 197 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
MeasuredPine Lake 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 Pine Lake is in
Pine Lake sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Pine Lake'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 Pine Lake
Every plant below cleared Pine Lake's own zone 8a and its 197-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pine Lake?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 Pine Lake
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pine Lake checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 231 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pine Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Flag MineMining · 0.9 mi
- Laxton PropertyMining · 1.2 mi
- AntelopeMining · 1.4 mi
- Democrat MineMining · 1.5 mi
- KINGMAN RADIOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- American Flag MineMining · 2.0 mi
- Great Eastern MineMining · 2.2 mi
- Unnamed ProspectMining · 2.4 mi
- Unnamed ProspectsMining · 2.6 mi
- Best BetMining · 2.8 mi
- Gold Metal MineMining · 2.8 mi
- Murphy's Tungsten ClaimMining · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine Lake'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 Lake.
Total Sites
44
within ~10 miles of Pine Lake
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pine Lake, Mining runs higher than the national average — 33 sites within ~10 miles of Pine Lake. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Pine Lake
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 Lake average
Your land is one point inside Pine Lake
Everything above resolves to Pine Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Lake Average
Pine Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Pine Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Pine Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Pine Lake's scale: Apr 24 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine Lake's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pine Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine Lake, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pine Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pine Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Lake average
How we know this about Pine Lake
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 Lake’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 Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Pine Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Lake typically lands around Apr 24, 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 May 15.
When is the first frost in Pine Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Lake typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 197 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pine Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pine Lake sees about 197 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 24, about 162 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pine Lake?
The federal record around Pine Lake runs heavier than most — 44 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (33), the nearest Mining record about 0.9 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Pine Lake?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pine Lake's scale — its 8a band and its 197-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Lake'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 Lake’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pine Lake's own scale — its own ~197-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,080 acres it covers and 44 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pine Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Nov 7 and the ~197-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 44 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Lake, the closest Mining record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine Lake's boundary and the 1,080 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~197-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pine Lake sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pine Lake 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 Lake's 1,080 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 Pine Lake's 1,080 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine Lake you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,080 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining record about 0.9 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 Lake-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across ArizonaPine Lake sits outside our named growing regions, so Arizona as a whole is its closest context here.
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