Truxton, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Truxton, 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 Truxton 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 Truxton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Truxton — the short answer
Truxton, Arizona: USDA zone 7b, about 223 days between hard freezes, across 2K 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 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~223
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Truxton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Truxton's 223-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Truxton
Each reading below is measured for Truxton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTruxton runs about 223 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
MeasuredTruxton 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 Truxton is in
Truxton sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Truxton'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 Truxton
Every plant below cleared Truxton's own zone 7b and its 223-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Truxton?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Truxton
Survey cells within 31 miles of Truxton checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 262 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Truxton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Truxton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TRUXTON AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- TRUXTON CHEVRON - FORMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- FRONTIER LOUNGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- DOUBLE SIX STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- ADOT - TRUXTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- B-24-12 09AADNitrate · 2300 ft
- Truxton Well (PDC#2)Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- Dewey Mahone SpringNitrate · 3.9 mi
- BIA Truxton AgencyPFAS · 6.8 mi
- Natural Resources WellNitrate · 8.2 mi
- PEACH SPRINGS HEALTH CENTERBrownfields · 8.7 mi
- Valentine WellNitrate · 8.8 mi
1 more site is on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Truxton'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 Truxton.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Truxton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Truxton
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.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Truxton
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 Truxton
Everything above resolves to Truxton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Truxton Average
Truxton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Truxton
- ●One soil character for all of Truxton
- ●Frost dates read at Truxton's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Truxton's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Truxton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Truxton, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Truxton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Truxton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Truxton average
How we know this about Truxton
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 Truxton’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 Truxton
When does frost risk typically end in Truxton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Truxton 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 Truxton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Truxton 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 223 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Truxton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Truxton sees about 223 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 24, about 188 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Truxton?
The federal record around Truxton shows 18 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (10), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Truxton?
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 Truxton's scale — its 7b band and its 223-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Truxton'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 Truxton’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Truxton's own scale — its own ~223-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,415 acres it covers and 18 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Truxton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Truxton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 7 and the ~223-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 18 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Truxton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Truxton's boundary and the 2,415 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~223-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Truxton sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Truxton 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 Truxton's 2,415 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 Truxton's 2,415 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Truxton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,415 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Truxton-wide figureread your own land →
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