Lakeland Village, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lakeland 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 Lakeland Village 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 Lakeland Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lakeland Village — the short answer
Lakeland Village, California: USDA zone 9b, about 303 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 13
- Riverside County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 13
- Riverside County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~303
- Riverside County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Riverside County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Lakeland Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lakeland Village's 303-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lakeland Village
Each reading below is measured for Lakeland Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLakeland Village runs about 303 days between hard freezes (read from Riverside County, the closest normal to Lakeland 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
MeasuredLakeland 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 Lakeland Village is in
Lakeland Village sits in the Southern California/Northern Baja Coast — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Lakeland Village's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Riverside County is mostly Sonoran Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lakeland Village
Every plant below cleared Lakeland Village's own zone 9b and its 303-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lakeland Village?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Lakeland Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lakeland Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WH JAMES TRUCK AND AUTOBrownfields · 2500 ft
- UNITED SATELLITE NETWORK INC DBA UNITED SATELLITE SVCBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- OSMENT GRADING & EXCAVATING INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- B & B METROLOGY INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- AB AUTO REPAIR & TIRE SHOP INCBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- LY GAS & MINI MARTBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- Ly's Gas & Mini MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- FRONTIER CALIFORNIA INC. ELSINORE GRANDBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- Frontier California, Inc.; Elsinore Grand COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Circle K Store #2700837Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- CIRCLE K STORES INC 2700837Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- VILLAGE CLEANERSBrownfields · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lakeland 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 Lakeland Village.
Total Sites
620
within ~10 miles of Lakeland Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lakeland Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lakeland Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lakeland Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lakeland Village — Brownfields (433 sites) and PFAS (6 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Lakeland 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 Lakeland Village average
Your land is one point inside Lakeland Village
Everything above resolves to Lakeland Village as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 6K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Riverside 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 Lakeland Village Average
Lakeland Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Lakeland Village
- ●One soil character for all of Lakeland Village
- ●Frost dates read at Lakeland Village's scale: Feb 13 to Dec 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lakeland Village's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lakeland Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lakeland Village, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lakeland Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lakeland Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lakeland Village average
How we know this about Lakeland 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 Riverside 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 Lakeland Village
When does frost risk typically end in Lakeland Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lakeland Village typically lands around Feb 13, 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 Mar 6.
When is the first frost in Lakeland Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lakeland Village typically arrives around Dec 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 29, so the watching starts about Nov 13 — about 303 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lakeland Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lakeland Village sees about 303 frost-free days — roughly Feb 13 through Dec 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 6 to Nov 29, about 268 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lakeland Village?
The federal record around Lakeland Village is a meaningful one — 620 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (433), the nearest Brownfields 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 Lakeland Village?
From about Nov 13 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lakeland Village's scale — its 9b band and its 303-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lakeland 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 Lakeland Village’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lakeland Village's own scale — the 5,613 acres it covers and 620 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lakeland Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 620 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lakeland Village, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lakeland Village's boundary and the 5,613 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~303-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lakeland Village sits in the Southern California/Northern Baja Coast — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lakeland Village has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Riverside County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lakeland Village's 5,613 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Riverside County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Riverside 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 Riverside County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lakeland Village's 5,613 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lakeland 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 5,613 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Lakeland Village-wide figureread your own land →
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