Mi-Wuk Village, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mi-Wuk 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 Mi-Wuk Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mi-Wuk Village — the short answer
Mi-Wuk Village, California: USDA zone 8b, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~241
- 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 8b is Mi-Wuk Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mi-Wuk Village's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mi-Wuk Village
Each reading below is measured for Mi-Wuk Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMi-Wuk Village runs about 241 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
MeasuredMi-Wuk Village 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 Mi-Wuk Village is in
Mi-Wuk Village sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Mi-Wuk Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tuolumne County.
What Grows in Mi-Wuk Village
Every plant below cleared Mi-Wuk Village's own zone 8b and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mi-Wuk Village?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Mi-Wuk Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mi-Wuk Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DONNA CLAIRE MANFRE TRUSTBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- USDA USFS R05 K RD (STANISLAUS NATIONAL FOREST)Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- Sonnys Mini MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Sierra Village ChevronUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- AUTO DISCOUNT REPAIRBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- Zak's Mini MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CAL TRANSBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- 002N016E10K001MNitrate · 1.8 mi
- Lucky Strike ClaimMining · 1.9 mi
- Confidence GroupMining · 2.0 mi
- Morning GloryMining · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mi-Wuk 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 Mi-Wuk Village.
Total Sites
117
within ~10 miles of Mi-Wuk Village
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mi-Wuk Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mi-Wuk Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mi-Wuk Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mi-Wuk Village — Mining (32 sites) and Superfund (3 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Mi-Wuk Village
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Mi-Wuk Village
Everything above resolves to Mi-Wuk Village 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 Mi-Wuk Village Average
Mi-Wuk Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Mi-Wuk Village
- ●One soil character for all of Mi-Wuk Village
- ●Frost dates read at Mi-Wuk Village's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mi-Wuk Village's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mi-Wuk Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mi-Wuk Village, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mi-Wuk Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mi-Wuk Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mi-Wuk Village average
How we know this about Mi-Wuk 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 Mi-Wuk Village’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 Mi-Wuk Village
When does frost risk typically end in Mi-Wuk Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mi-Wuk Village typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Mi-Wuk Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mi-Wuk Village typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mi-Wuk Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mi-Wuk Village sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Nov 12, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mi-Wuk Village?
The federal record around Mi-Wuk Village runs heavier than most — 117 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (67), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Mi-Wuk Village?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mi-Wuk Village's scale — its 8b band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mi-Wuk 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 Mi-Wuk Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mi-Wuk Village's own scale — its own ~241-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,814 acres it covers and 117 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mi-Wuk Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mi-Wuk Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 26 and the ~241-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 117 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mi-Wuk Village, the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mi-Wuk Village's boundary and the 1,814 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mi-Wuk Village's own centroid, the Sierra NevadaUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mi-Wuk Village's 1,814 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tuolumne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tuolumne 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 Tuolumne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mi-Wuk Village's 1,814 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mi-Wuk 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 1,814 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 Mi-Wuk Village-wide figureread your own land →