Wet Camp Village, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Wet Camp Village, 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 Wet Camp Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wet Camp Village — the short answer
Wet Camp Village, Arizona: USDA zone 9b, about 327 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 23
- Pinal County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 16
- Pinal County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~327
- Pinal 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 Pinal County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Wet Camp Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wet Camp Village's 327-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wet Camp Village
Each reading below is measured for Wet Camp Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWet Camp Village runs about 327 days between hard freezes (read from Pinal County, the closest normal to Wet Camp Village) — 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
MeasuredWet Camp Village 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 Wet Camp Village is in
Wet Camp Village sits in the Sonoran Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Wet Camp Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pinal County.
What Grows in Wet Camp Village
Every plant below cleared Wet Camp Village's own zone 9b and its 327-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wet Camp Village?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
Documented around Wet Camp Village
Survey cells within 31 miles of Wet Camp Village checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 305 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wet Camp Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wet Camp Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- D-03-04 25DCBNitrate · 2600 ft
- D-03-05 29BCBNitrate · 1.5 mi
- GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATIONSuperfund · 1.7 mi
- D-04-05 06ABBNitrate · 2.0 mi
- D-03-05 32ABCNitrate · 2.2 mi
- D-03-05 28CBBNitrate · 2.5 mi
- Albert Mackenzie PropertyMining · 3.6 mi
- SACATONToxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
- HANSON AGGREGATES LLCToxics Release Inventory · 4.1 mi
- CEMEX - SAN TAN PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 4.1 mi
- SAN TAN HMA PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 4.1 mi
- SUN LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION #1Underground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wet Camp Village'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 Wet Camp Village.
Total Sites
178
within ~10 miles of Wet Camp Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wet Camp Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wet Camp Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wet Camp Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wet Camp Village — PFAS (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (16 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Wet Camp Village
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 Wet Camp Village average
Your land is one point inside Wet Camp Village
Everything above resolves to Wet Camp Village as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Pinal 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 Wet Camp Village Average
Wet Camp Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Wet Camp Village
- ●One soil character for all of Wet Camp Village
- ●Frost dates read at Wet Camp Village's scale: Jan 23 to Dec 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wet Camp Village's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wet Camp Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wet Camp Village, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wet Camp Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wet Camp Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wet Camp Village average
How we know this about Wet Camp Village
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 Pinal 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 Wet Camp Village
When does frost risk typically end in Wet Camp Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wet Camp Village typically lands around Jan 23, 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 Feb 13.
When is the first frost in Wet Camp Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wet Camp Village typically arrives around Dec 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 2, so the watching starts about Nov 16 — about 327 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wet Camp Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wet Camp Village sees about 327 frost-free days — roughly Jan 23 through Dec 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 13 to Dec 2, about 292 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wet Camp Village?
The federal record around Wet Camp Village is a meaningful one — 178 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (57), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.5 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 Wet Camp Village?
From about Nov 16 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wet Camp Village's scale — its 9b band and its 327-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wet Camp Village'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 Wet Camp Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wet Camp Village's own scale — the 2,941 acres it covers and 178 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wet Camp Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 178 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wet Camp Village, the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wet Camp Village's boundary and the 2,941 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~327-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wet Camp Village's own centroid, the Sonoran Basin and RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Wet Camp Village checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Wet Camp Village has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Pinal County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wet Camp Village's 2,941 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pinal County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pinal 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 Pinal County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wet Camp Village's 2,941 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wet Camp Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,941 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 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 Wet Camp Village-wide figureread your own land →