Roosevelt Estates, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Roosevelt Estates, 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 Roosevelt Estates lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Roosevelt Estates — the short answer
Roosevelt Estates, Arizona: USDA zone 9b, about 295 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 12
- Gila County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 4
- Gila County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~295
- Gila County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 3K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Gila County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Roosevelt Estates's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Roosevelt Estates's 295-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Roosevelt Estates
Each reading below is measured for Roosevelt Estates itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRoosevelt Estates runs about 295 days between hard freezes (read from Gila County, the closest normal to Roosevelt Estates) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredRoosevelt Estates sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Roosevelt Estates is in
Roosevelt Estates sits in the Sonoran Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Roosevelt Estates's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Gila County is mostly Arizona/New Mexico Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Roosevelt Estates
Every plant below cleared Roosevelt Estates's own zone 9b and its 295-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Roosevelt Estates?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Roosevelt Estates
Survey cells within 31 miles of Roosevelt Estates checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 358 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Roosevelt Estates
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Roosevelt Estates. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 80291Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- 80290Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- 80292Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- PINTO CREEK STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- SPRING CREEK STORE #13Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 80437Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- ROCK HOUSE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- USDOI NPS - TONTO NATIONAL MONUMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- Jackie 1-4Mining · 7.3 mi
- Red Bluff ProspectMining · 8.0 mi
- El Pito Copper ClaimsMining · 8.2 mi
- 80436Nitrate · 8.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Roosevelt Estates'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 Roosevelt Estates.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Roosevelt Estates
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Roosevelt Estates
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.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
Check your specific parcel in Roosevelt Estates
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 Roosevelt Estates average
Your land is one point inside Roosevelt Estates
Everything above resolves to Roosevelt Estates as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Gila County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Roosevelt Estates Average
Roosevelt Estates Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Roosevelt Estates
- ●One soil character for all of Roosevelt Estates
- ●Frost dates read at Roosevelt Estates's scale: Feb 12 to Dec 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Roosevelt Estates's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Roosevelt Estates
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Roosevelt Estates, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Roosevelt Estates averages can't show:
We read public map data around Roosevelt Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Roosevelt Estates average
How we know this about Roosevelt Estates
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 Gila County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Roosevelt Estates
When does frost risk typically end in Roosevelt Estates?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Roosevelt Estates typically lands around Feb 12, 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 Mar 5.
When is the first frost in Roosevelt Estates?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Roosevelt Estates typically arrives around Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 20, so the watching starts about Nov 4 — about 295 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Roosevelt Estates?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Roosevelt Estates sees about 295 frost-free days — roughly Feb 12 through Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 5 to Nov 20, about 260 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Roosevelt Estates?
The federal record around Roosevelt Estates shows 23 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (10), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Roosevelt Estates?
From about Nov 4 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 Dec 4 (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 Dec 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Roosevelt Estates's scale — its 9b band and its 295-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Roosevelt Estates'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 Roosevelt Estates’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Roosevelt Estates's own scale — the 3,076 acres it covers and 23 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Roosevelt Estates's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 23 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Roosevelt Estates, the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Roosevelt Estates's boundary and the 3,076 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~295-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Roosevelt Estates sits in the Sonoran Basin and Range — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Roosevelt Estates checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Roosevelt Estates has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Gila County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Roosevelt Estates's 3,076 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 Roosevelt Estates's 3,076 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Roosevelt Estates you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,076 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 Roosevelt Estates-wide figureread your own land →
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