Frazier Park, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Frazier 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 Frazier 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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Frazier Park — the short answer
Frazier Park, California: USDA zone 8a, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- 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 8a is Frazier Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Frazier Park's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Frazier Park
Each reading below is measured for Frazier Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFrazier Park runs about 212 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
MeasuredFrazier Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Frazier Park is in
Frazier Park sits in the Southern California Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Frazier Park's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Kern County is mostly Central California Valley. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Frazier Park
Every plant below cleared Frazier Park's own zone 8a and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Frazier Park?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Frazier Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Frazier Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 009N020W36F001SNitrate · 2100 ft
- NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS LLCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- DONS LIQUOR MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PACIFIC BELLBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL #16438Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- ANTHONY'S TOWING SERVICEBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- TWO GUYS ROAD SERVICEBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- MIDWAY MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- 009N020W34M001SNitrate · 2.2 mi
- MARTIN'S GARAGE INCBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- B & B MATERIALS INCBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- LAKE OF THE WOODS RADIUM DIALSSuperfund · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Frazier 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 Frazier Park.
Total Sites
84
within ~10 miles of Frazier Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Frazier Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Frazier Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Frazier Park, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 54 sites within ~10 miles of Frazier Park. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Frazier Park
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 Frazier Park average
Your land is one point inside Frazier Park
Everything above resolves to Frazier Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Frazier Park Average
Frazier Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Frazier Park
- ●One soil character for all of Frazier Park
- ●Frost dates read at Frazier Park's scale: Apr 20 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Frazier Park's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Frazier Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Frazier Park, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Frazier Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Frazier Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Frazier Park average
How we know this about Frazier 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 Frazier 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 Frazier Park
When does frost risk typically end in Frazier Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Frazier Park typically lands around Apr 20, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Frazier Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Frazier Park typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Frazier Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Frazier Park sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Nov 4, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Frazier Park?
The federal record around Frazier Park is a meaningful one — 84 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (54), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Frazier Park?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Frazier Park's scale — its 8a band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Frazier 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 Frazier Park’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Frazier Park's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,338 acres it covers and 84 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Frazier Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Frazier Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Nov 18 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 84 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Frazier Park, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Frazier Park's boundary and the 3,338 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Frazier Park sits in the Southern California Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Frazier Park's 3,338 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kern County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kern County
- The growing challenges every California grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom California
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Kern County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Frazier Park's 3,338 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Frazier 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 3,338 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Frazier Park-wide figureread your own land →