Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Teec Nos Pos, 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 Teec Nos Pos lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Teec Nos Pos — the short answer
Teec Nos Pos, Arizona: USDA zone 7b, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 9K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 9K 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 Teec Nos Pos's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Teec Nos Pos's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Teec Nos Pos
Each reading below is measured for Teec Nos Pos itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTeec Nos Pos runs about 219 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
MeasuredTeec Nos Pos 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 Teec Nos Pos is in
Teec Nos Pos sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Teec Nos Pos's own centroid rather than borrowed from Apache County.
What Grows in Teec Nos Pos
Every plant below cleared Teec Nos Pos's own zone 7b and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Teec Nos Pos?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Teec Nos Pos
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Teec Nos Pos. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FRANK'S FINA (NAV167)Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- 09 019-03.80X06.60Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- 09 019-03.50X02.18Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- TIISNAZBAS COMMUNITY SCHOOLBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- TSE-TAH AGGREGATED URANIUM MINESSuperfund · 2.6 mi
- COVE MESA AGGREGATED URANIUM MINESSuperfund · 2.6 mi
- ENOS JOHNSON URANIUM MINE-RED VALLEYSuperfund · 2.6 mi
- VANADIUM CORP. OF AMERICA (VCA)--PLOT 10Superfund · 2.6 mi
- AZ PUBLIC SERVICE SUBSTAS - RED VALLEYSuperfund · 2.6 mi
- 09 019-05.81X06.38Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- 09 019-06.00X06.55Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- 09 019-05.82X06.78Nitrate · 3.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Teec Nos Pos'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 Teec Nos Pos.
Total Sites
29
within ~10 miles of Teec Nos Pos
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Teec Nos Pos
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Teec Nos Pos, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Teec Nos Pos — Superfund (5 sites) and Nitrate (22 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Teec Nos Pos
Everything above resolves to Teec Nos Pos as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 9K 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 Teec Nos Pos Average
Teec Nos Pos Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Teec Nos Pos
- ●One soil character for all of Teec Nos Pos
- ●Frost dates read at Teec Nos Pos's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Teec Nos Pos's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Teec Nos Pos — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Teec Nos Pos
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 Teec Nos Pos’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 Teec Nos Pos
When does frost risk typically end in Teec Nos Pos?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Teec Nos Pos typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Teec Nos Pos?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Teec Nos Pos typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Teec Nos Pos?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Teec Nos Pos sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 20, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Teec Nos Pos?
The federal record around Teec Nos Pos is a meaningful one — 29 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (22), the nearest Brownfields record about 1.5 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 Teec Nos Pos?
From about Oct 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 Nov 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Teec Nos Pos's scale — its 7b band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Teec Nos Pos'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 Teec Nos Pos’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Teec Nos Pos's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 9,146 acres it covers and 29 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Teec Nos Pos's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Teec Nos Pos's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 3 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 29 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Teec Nos Pos, the closest Brownfields record about 1.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Teec Nos Pos's boundary and the 9,146 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Teec Nos Pos's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Teec Nos Pos's 9,146 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Apache County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Apache 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 Apache County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Teec Nos Pos's 9,146 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Teec Nos Pos you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 9,146 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 1.5 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 Teec Nos Pos-wide figureread your own land →
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