Mogollon, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Mogollon, 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 Mogollon lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mogollon — the short answer
Mogollon, New Mexico: USDA zone 7b, about 187 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 30
- 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
- ~187
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Mogollon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mogollon's 187-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mogollon
Each reading below is measured for Mogollon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMogollon runs about 187 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMogollon 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 Mogollon is in
Mogollon sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Mogollon's own centroid rather than borrowed from Catron County.
What Grows in Mogollon
Every plant below cleared Mogollon's own zone 7b and its 187-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mogollon?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 30 (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. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Mogollon
Survey cells within 31 miles of Mogollon checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 484 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mogollon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mogollon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Mogollon DistrictMining · 950 ft
- Little Fanney MineMining · 950 ft
- Alberta MineMining · 2000 ft
- Maud S. MineMining · 0.6 mi
- Johnson MineMining · 0.7 mi
- Eberle MineMining · 0.8 mi
- Cooney MineMining · 0.8 mi
- Last Chance MineMining · 1.0 mi
- Pacific MineMining · 1.1 mi
- South Alpine MineMining · 1.1 mi
- Deadwood MineMining · 1.2 mi
- Confidence MineMining · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mogollon'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 Mogollon.
Total Sites
27
within ~10 miles of Mogollon
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mogollon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mogollon, Mining runs higher than the national average — 20 sites within ~10 miles of Mogollon. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Mogollon
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 Mogollon average
Your land is one point inside Mogollon
Everything above resolves to Mogollon as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Mogollon Average
Mogollon Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Mogollon
- ●One soil character for all of Mogollon
- ●Frost dates read at Mogollon's scale: Apr 30 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mogollon's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mogollon
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mogollon, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mogollon averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mogollon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mogollon average
How we know this about Mogollon
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 Mogollon’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 Mogollon
When does frost risk typically end in Mogollon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mogollon typically lands around Apr 30, 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 May 21.
When is the first frost in Mogollon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mogollon 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 187 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mogollon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mogollon sees about 187 frost-free days — roughly Apr 30 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 21 to Oct 20, about 152 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mogollon?
The federal record around Mogollon is a meaningful one — 27 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (20), the nearest Mining record about 0.2 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 Mogollon?
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 Mogollon's scale — its 7b band and its 187-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mogollon'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 Mogollon’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mogollon's own scale — its own ~187-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,146 acres it covers and 27 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mogollon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mogollon's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 30 and Nov 3 and the ~187-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 27 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mogollon, the closest Mining record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mogollon's boundary and the 1,146 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~187-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mogollon's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Mogollon 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 Mogollon's 1,146 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Catron County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Catron County
- The growing challenges every New Mexico grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Mexico
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Catron County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mogollon's 1,146 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mogollon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,146 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining record about 0.2 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 Mogollon-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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