Pinetop Country Club, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Pinetop Country Club, 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 Pinetop Country Club lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pinetop Country Club — the short answer
Pinetop Country Club, Arizona: USDA zone 6b, about 168 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~168
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Pinetop Country Club's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pinetop Country Club's 168-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pinetop Country Club
Each reading below is measured for Pinetop Country Club itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPinetop Country Club runs about 168 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
MeasuredPinetop Country Club 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 Pinetop Country Club is in
Pinetop Country Club sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Pinetop Country Club's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Navajo County is mostly Arizona/New Mexico Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Pinetop Country Club
Every plant below cleared Pinetop Country Club's own zone 6b and its 168-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pinetop Country Club?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Pinetop Country Club
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pinetop Country Club. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- A-08-23 02CBANitrate · 200 ft
- A-08-23 11BDBNitrate · 0.7 mi
- A-08-23 11ABCNitrate · 0.7 mi
- PINETOP LAKES COUNTRY CLUB ASSOCIATION INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- A-08-23 10BAD1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- PINETOP COUNTRY CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- A-08-23 10BBBNitrate · 1.2 mi
- A-08-23 01DBCNitrate · 1.4 mi
- A-08-23 10CBCNitrate · 1.5 mi
- A-08-23 09ACANitrate · 1.6 mi
- A-08-23 09ACC1Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- A-08-23 04BAANitrate · 1.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pinetop Country Club'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 Pinetop Country Club.
Total Sites
125
within ~10 miles of Pinetop Country Club
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pinetop Country Club
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pinetop Country Club
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pinetop Country Club, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pinetop Country Club — PFAS (3 sites) and Nitrate (66 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Pinetop Country Club
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 Pinetop Country Club average
Your land is one point inside Pinetop Country Club
Everything above resolves to Pinetop Country Club as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Pinetop Country Club Average
Pinetop Country Club Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Pinetop Country Club
- ●One soil character for all of Pinetop Country Club
- ●Frost dates read at Pinetop Country Club's scale: May 7 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pinetop Country Club's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pinetop Country Club
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pinetop Country Club, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pinetop Country Club averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pinetop Country Club — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pinetop Country Club average
How we know this about Pinetop Country Club
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 Pinetop Country Club’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 Pinetop Country Club
When does frost risk typically end in Pinetop Country Club?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pinetop Country Club typically lands around May 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Pinetop Country Club?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pinetop Country Club typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 168 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pinetop Country Club?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pinetop Country Club sees about 168 frost-free days — roughly May 7 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 28 to Oct 8, about 133 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pinetop Country Club?
The federal record around Pinetop Country Club is a meaningful one — 125 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (66), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Pinetop Country Club?
From about Sep 22 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pinetop Country Club's scale — its 6b band and its 168-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pinetop Country Club'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 Pinetop Country Club’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pinetop Country Club's own scale — its own ~168-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,304 acres it covers and 125 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pinetop Country Club's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pinetop Country Club's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 7 and Oct 22 and the ~168-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 125 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pinetop Country Club, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pinetop Country Club's boundary and the 4,304 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~168-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pinetop Country Club sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pinetop Country Club's 4,304 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Navajo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Navajo 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 Navajo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pinetop Country Club's 4,304 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pinetop Country Club you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,304 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Pinetop Country Club-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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