Pinion Pines, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Pinion Pines, 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 Pinion Pines lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pinion Pines — the short answer
Pinion Pines, Arizona: USDA zone 8a, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 962 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 962 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 Pinion Pines's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pinion Pines's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pinion Pines
Each reading below is measured for Pinion Pines itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPinion Pines runs about 243 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
MeasuredPinion Pines 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 Pinion Pines is in
Pinion Pines sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Pinion Pines'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 Pinion Pines
Every plant below cleared Pinion Pines's own zone 8a and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pinion Pines?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Pinion Pines
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pinion Pines checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 232 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pinion Pines
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pinion Pines. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KINGMAN RADIOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Great Eastern MineMining · 3.5 mi
- LOVE'S TRAVEL STOP #272Underground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- PARCEL 322-23-085Underground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- Century MineMining · 4.6 mi
- Enterprise MineMining · 4.6 mi
- B-21-16 28CACNitrate · 5.0 mi
- Flag MineMining · 5.0 mi
- B-21-15 07ACANitrate · 5.0 mi
- Unnamed ProspectsMining · 5.2 mi
- Gold Metal MineMining · 5.3 mi
- Laxton PropertyMining · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pinion Pines'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 Pinion Pines.
Total Sites
259
within ~10 miles of Pinion Pines
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pinion Pines
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pinion Pines
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pinion Pines, Mining runs higher than the national average — 29 sites within ~10 miles of Pinion Pines. 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.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Pinion Pines
Everything above resolves to Pinion Pines as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 962 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 Pinion Pines Average
Pinion Pines Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Pinion Pines
- ●One soil character for all of Pinion Pines
- ●Frost dates read at Pinion Pines's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pinion Pines's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pinion Pines
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pinion Pines, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pinion Pines averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pinion Pines — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pinion Pines average
How we know this about Pinion Pines
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 Pinion Pines’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 Pinion Pines
When does frost risk typically end in Pinion Pines?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pinion Pines typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Pinion Pines?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pinion Pines typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pinion Pines?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pinion Pines sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Nov 6, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pinion Pines?
The federal record around Pinion Pines is a meaningful one — 259 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (150), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.9 miles 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 Pinion Pines?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pinion Pines's scale — its 8a band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pinion Pines'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 Pinion Pines’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pinion Pines's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 962 acres it covers and 259 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pinion Pines's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pinion Pines's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 20 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 259 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pinion Pines, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pinion Pines's boundary and the 962 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pinion Pines sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pinion Pines 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 Pinion Pines's 962 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 Pinion Pines's 962 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pinion Pines you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 962 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.9 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 Pinion Pines-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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