Village of Oak Creek (Big Park), Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park), 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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) — the short answer
Village of Oak Creek (Big Park), Arizona: USDA zone 8b, about 256 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~256
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 8b is Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s 256-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Your town runs its own season
Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s own 30-year record measures about 256 days between 28°F killing freezes — 49 days longer than Yavapai County's ~207. Both are measured records, not estimates.
That gap is the whole reason a county average can mislead here. Plant against Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s ~256-day season rather than the county figure — and the sun, slope and cold-air drainage on your specific lot move it again.
NOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS (1991–2020), 30-year daily minimum record. Both figures are measured records — this town’s own and its county’s. A town with no record of its own is absent here rather than estimated.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
Each reading below is measured for Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVillage of Oak Creek (Big Park) runs about 256 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
MeasuredVillage of Oak Creek (Big Park) sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) is in
Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s own centroid rather than borrowed from Yavapai County.
What Grows in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
Every plant below cleared Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s own zone 8b and its 256-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)?
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 Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
Survey cells within 31 miles of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 330 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park). Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SPEEDWAY STORE #2888Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- VILLAGE SQUARE CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- JACKSON ENERGY #6789Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- A-16-06 18CDB1Nitrate · 1400 ft
- SPOTMASTERSBrownfields · 1800 ft
- A-16-06 18BBC1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- CIRCLE K #2701389Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- VILLAGE OF OAK CREEK ASSOCIATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- A-16-05 13BDCNitrate · 0.9 mi
- A-16-06 19BCDNitrate · 0.9 mi
- A-16-05 24ACDNitrate · 0.9 mi
- A-16-06 08CCCNitrate · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park).
Total Sites
212
within ~10 miles of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
13 brownfield sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Village of Oak Creek (Big Park), Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 158 sites within ~10 miles of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
Everything above resolves to Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) as a whole — and this is a town whose own 30-year record already runs a season its county’s does not. Your parcel sits at one point inside even that. 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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) Average
Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
- ●One soil character for all of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
- ●Frost dates read at Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s scale: Mar 11 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
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Three things about your lot that Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) averages can't show:
We read public map data around Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)’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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
When does frost risk typically end in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) typically lands around Mar 11, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 256 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) sees about 256 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 8, about 221 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)?
The federal record around Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) is a meaningful one — 212 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (158), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)?
From about Oct 23 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 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 Nov 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s scale — its 8b band and its 256-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s own scale — its own ~256-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,364 acres it covers and 212 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 22 and the ~256-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 212 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Village of Oak Creek (Big Park), the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s boundary and the 3,364 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~256-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) 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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s 3,364 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Yavapai County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Yavapai 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 Yavapai County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)'s 3,364 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,364 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)-wide figureread your own land →
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