Lake Almanor Country Club, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Lake Almanor Country Club, 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 Lake Almanor Country Club lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lake Almanor Country Club — the short answer
Lake Almanor Country Club, California: USDA zone 7a, about 164 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~164
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 Lake Almanor Country Club's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lake Almanor Country Club's 164-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lake Almanor Country Club
Each reading below is measured for Lake Almanor Country Club itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLake Almanor Country Club runs about 164 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
MeasuredLake Almanor Country Club 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 Lake Almanor Country Club is in
Lake Almanor Country Club sits in the Cascades — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Lake Almanor Country Club's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Plumas County is mostly Sierra Nevada. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lake Almanor Country Club
Every plant below cleared Lake Almanor Country Club's own zone 7a and its 164-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lake Almanor Country Club?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 16 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Lake Almanor Country Club
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lake Almanor Country Club. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LAKE ALMANOR COUNTRY CLUB INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- PENINSULA FIRE DISTRICTBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- ALMANOR DRY DOCKBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- Lake Almanor StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- TURNER EXCAVATING, INCBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- 027N007E11D001MNitrate · 3.1 mi
- 028N007E11G001MNitrate · 3.2 mi
- WEST ALMANOR COMMUNITY CLUBBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- BOB THORPEBrownfields · 3.3 mi
- 028N007E33F001MNitrate · 3.4 mi
- SIERRA CASCADE AGGREGATE & ASPHALT PROD LLCBrownfields · 5.1 mi
- CHESTER AUTO BODY & GLASSBrownfields · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lake Almanor Country Club'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 Lake Almanor Country Club.
Total Sites
69
within ~10 miles of Lake Almanor Country Club
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lake Almanor Country Club
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lake Almanor Country Club
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lake Almanor Country Club, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lake Almanor Country Club — Mining (7 sites) and Brownfields (44 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Lake Almanor Country Club
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 Lake Almanor Country Club average
Your land is one point inside Lake Almanor Country Club
Everything above resolves to Lake Almanor Country Club 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 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 Lake Almanor Country Club Average
Lake Almanor Country Club Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lake Almanor Country Club
- ●One soil character for all of Lake Almanor Country Club
- ●Frost dates read at Lake Almanor Country Club's scale: May 5 to Oct 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lake Almanor Country Club's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lake Almanor Country Club
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lake Almanor Country Club, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lake Almanor Country Club averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lake Almanor Country Club — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Almanor Country Club average
How we know this about Lake Almanor Country Club
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 Lake Almanor Country Club’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 Lake Almanor Country Club
When does frost risk typically end in Lake Almanor Country Club?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Almanor Country Club typically lands around May 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Lake Almanor Country Club?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Almanor Country Club typically arrives around Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 2, so the watching starts about Sep 16 — about 164 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lake Almanor Country Club?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lake Almanor Country Club sees about 164 frost-free days — roughly May 5 through Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 26 to Oct 2, about 129 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lake Almanor Country Club?
The federal record around Lake Almanor Country Club shows 69 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (44), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lake Almanor Country Club?
From about Sep 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 Oct 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 Oct 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lake Almanor Country Club's scale — its 7a band and its 164-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lake Almanor Country Club'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 Lake Almanor Country Club’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lake Almanor Country Club's own scale — its own ~164-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,756 acres it covers and 69 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lake Almanor Country Club's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lake Almanor Country Club's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 5 and Oct 16 and the ~164-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 69 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lake Almanor Country Club, the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lake Almanor Country Club's boundary and the 1,756 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~164-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lake Almanor Country Club sits in the Cascades — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lake Almanor Country Club's 1,756 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Plumas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Plumas 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 Plumas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lake Almanor Country Club's 1,756 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lake Almanor Country Club you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,756 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 Lake Almanor Country Club-wide figureread your own land →