McClenney Tract, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in McClenney Tract, 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 McClenney Tract 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 McClenney Tract — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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McClenney Tract — the short answer
McClenney Tract, California: USDA zone 8b, about 258 days between hard freezes, across 394 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~258
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 394 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 8b is McClenney Tract's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against McClenney Tract's 258-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in McClenney Tract
Each reading below is measured for McClenney Tract itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMcClenney Tract runs about 258 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
MeasuredMcClenney Tract sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 McClenney Tract is in
McClenney Tract sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at McClenney Tract's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tulare County.
What Grows in McClenney Tract
Every plant below cleared McClenney Tract's own zone 8b and its 258-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in McClenney Tract?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near McClenney Tract
Closest first, within ~10 miles of McClenney Tract. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- White River ClaimsMining · 1.9 mi
- White River ProspectMining · 1.9 mi
- 023S031E31N001MNitrate · 4.3 mi
- MJ BATESBrownfields · 4.7 mi
- 023S030E35H001MNitrate · 5.2 mi
- GLENNVILLE TRANSFER STATIONBrownfields · 6.1 mi
- Lucky Hit DepositMining · 6.6 mi
- Big Oscar Antimony DepositMining · 6.7 mi
- Major MineMining · 6.8 mi
- 025S031E30H001MNitrate · 6.9 mi
- Susie Q ProspectMining · 7.0 mi
- CALTRANS D6 MAINTENANCE GLENNVILLE MSBrownfields · 8.4 mi
3 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from McClenney Tract'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 McClenney Tract.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of McClenney Tract
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in McClenney Tract
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 McClenney Tract average
Your land is one point inside McClenney Tract
Everything above resolves to McClenney Tract as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 394 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 McClenney Tract Average
McClenney Tract Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across McClenney Tract
- ●One soil character for all of McClenney Tract
- ●Frost dates read at McClenney Tract's scale: Mar 18 to Dec 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not McClenney Tract's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in McClenney Tract
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in McClenney Tract, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that McClenney Tract averages can't show:
We read public map data around McClenney Tract — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the McClenney Tract average
How we know this about McClenney Tract
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 McClenney Tract’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 McClenney Tract
When does frost risk typically end in McClenney Tract?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in McClenney Tract typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in McClenney Tract?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in McClenney Tract typically arrives around Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 17, so the watching starts about Nov 1 — about 258 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in McClenney Tract?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, McClenney Tract sees about 258 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Nov 17, about 223 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in McClenney Tract?
The federal record around McClenney Tract is light — 19 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Mining entries (9), the nearest Mining record about 1.9 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in McClenney Tract?
From about Nov 1 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at McClenney Tract's scale — its 8b band and its 258-day season. Your yard writes its own version of McClenney Tract'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 McClenney Tract’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at McClenney Tract's own scale — its own ~258-day season between 28°F freezes, the 394 acres it covers and 19 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- McClenney Tract's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- McClenney Tract's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Dec 1 and the ~258-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 19 documented contamination sites on the federal record near McClenney Tract, the closest Mining record about 1.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- McClenney Tract's boundary and the 394 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~258-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at McClenney Tract's own centroid, the Sierra NevadaUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so McClenney Tract's 394 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tulare County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tulare 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 Tulare County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among McClenney Tract's 394 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of McClenney Tract you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 394 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining record about 1.9 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 McClenney Tract-wide figureread your own land →