Meyers, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
The conditions favor cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Meyers, 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 Meyers lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Meyers — the short answer
Meyers, California: USDA zone 6b, about 132 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~132
- 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 6b is Meyers's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Meyers's 132-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Meyers
Each reading below is measured for Meyers itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMeyers runs about 132 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMeyers sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Meyers is in
Meyers sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Meyers's own centroid rather than borrowed from El Dorado County.
What Grows in Meyers
Every plant below cleared Meyers's own zone 6b and its 132-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Meyers?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. When the window is tight, the fall moves are quick ones — baby greens, radishes, and garlic set for next season.
What's on the federal record near Meyers
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Meyers. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EDC DOT SO LAKE TAHOEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- EL DORADO COUNTY DOT SLTBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- EL DORADO COUNTYBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- STATE OF CALIF CALTRANS SOUTH LAKE TAHOE MTCEBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- TAHOE ADVENTURESBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- PACIFIC BELLBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL #246 SOUTH LAKE TAHOEBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- PACIFIC BELL C/O ALLEN TB484Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- EXECUTIVE AERO SYSTSBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- ECHO CHALET, INC.Brownfields · 1.4 mi
- 090 N12 E18 29CBD 1 Arrowhead 2Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- RAY WINTERSBrownfields · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Meyers'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 Meyers.
Total Sites
289
within ~10 miles of Meyers
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Meyers
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Meyers
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Meyers, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 190 sites within ~10 miles of Meyers. 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.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Meyers
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 Meyers average
Your land is one point inside Meyers
Everything above resolves to Meyers 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 Meyers Average
Meyers Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Meyers
- ●One soil character for all of Meyers
- ●Frost dates read at Meyers's scale: May 28 to Oct 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Meyers's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Meyers
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Meyers, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Meyers averages can't show:
We read public map data around Meyers — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Meyers average
How we know this about Meyers
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 Meyers’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 Meyers
When does frost risk typically end in Meyers?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Meyers typically lands around May 28, 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 Jun 18.
When is the first frost in Meyers?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Meyers typically arrives around Oct 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 23, so the watching starts about Sep 7 — about 132 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Meyers?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Meyers sees about 132 frost-free days — roughly May 28 through Oct 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 18 to Sep 23, about 97 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Meyers?
The federal record around Meyers is a meaningful one — 289 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (190), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 gardeners stretch the season in Meyers?
With about 132 frost-free days between hard freezes, Meyers rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 160 to 188 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 28 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Meyers's scale — its 6b band and its 132-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Meyers'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 Meyers’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Meyers's own scale — its own ~132-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,599 acres it covers and 289 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Meyers's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Meyers's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 28 and Oct 7 and the ~132-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 289 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Meyers, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Meyers's boundary and the 1,599 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~132-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Meyers's own centroid, the Sierra NevadaUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Meyers's 1,599 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom El Dorado County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom El Dorado 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 El Dorado County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Meyers's 1,599 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Meyers you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,599 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Meyers-wide figureread your own land →