Moxee, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Moxee, 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 Moxee 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 Moxee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Moxee — the short answer
Moxee, Washington: USDA zone 7a, about 196 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~196
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 7a is Moxee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Moxee's 196-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Moxee
Each reading below is measured for Moxee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMoxee runs about 196 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
MeasuredMoxee sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Moxee is in
Moxee sits in the Columbia Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Moxee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Yakima County.
What Grows in Moxee
Every plant below cleared Moxee's own zone 7a and its 196-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Moxee?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Moxee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Moxee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FAR WEST FABRICATORSToxics Release Inventory · 100 ft
- FAR WEST FABRICATORSBrownfields · 100 ft
- LENSIGNE BROTHERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- COLEMAN OIL COMPANY 377Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- S MARTINEZ LIVESTOCK INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- SIMPLOT SOILBUILDERS MOXEE CITYBrownfields · 1000 ft
- MOXEE CITY SHOP & STPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- KRONOS MICRONUTRIENTSBrownfields · 2100 ft
- KRONOS MICRONUTRIENTSToxics Release Inventory · 2100 ft
- EAST VALLEY MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- BAY ZINC CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- ACE HARDWARE CORP MOXEEBrownfields · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Moxee'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 Moxee.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Moxee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Moxee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Moxee, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 426 sites within ~10 miles of Moxee. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Moxee
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 Moxee average
Your land is one point inside Moxee
Everything above resolves to Moxee 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 city 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 Moxee Average
Moxee Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Moxee
- ●One soil character for all of Moxee
- ●Frost dates read at Moxee's scale: Apr 9 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Moxee's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Moxee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Moxee, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Moxee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Moxee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Moxee average
How we know this about Moxee
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Moxee’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Moxee
When does frost risk typically end in Moxee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Moxee typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Moxee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Moxee typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 196 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Moxee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Moxee sees about 196 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 8, about 161 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Moxee?
The federal record around Moxee runs heavier than most — 667 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (426), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Moxee?
From about Sep 22 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 Oct 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 Oct 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Moxee's scale — its 7a band and its 196-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Moxee'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 Moxee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Moxee's own scale — its own ~196-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,516 acres it covers and 667 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Moxee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Moxee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Oct 22 and the ~196-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 667 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Moxee, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Moxee's boundary and the 1,516 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~196-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Moxee's own centroid, the Columbia PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Moxee's 1,516 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Yakima County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Yakima County
- The growing challenges every Washington grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Washington
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Yakima County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Moxee's 1,516 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Moxee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,516 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record under a tenth of a mile 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 Moxee-wide figureread your own land →