Mohawk Vista, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Mohawk Vista, 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 Mohawk Vista 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 Mohawk Vista — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Mohawk Vista — the short answer
Mohawk Vista, California: USDA zone 7a, about 157 days between hard freezes, across 8K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~157
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 8K 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 Mohawk Vista's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mohawk Vista's 157-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mohawk Vista
Each reading below is measured for Mohawk Vista itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMohawk Vista runs about 157 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
MeasuredMohawk Vista 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 Mohawk Vista is in
Mohawk Vista sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Mohawk Vista's own centroid rather than borrowed from Plumas County.
What Grows in Mohawk Vista
Every plant below cleared Mohawk Vista's own zone 7a and its 157-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mohawk Vista?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Mohawk Vista
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mohawk Vista. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PACIFIC BELLBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- PLUMAS COUNTY PUBLIC WORKSBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- USDA USFS R05 BECKWOURTH RANGER DISTRICTBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- PLUMAS COUNTYBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- Graeagle ChevronUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- GRAEAGLE CHEVRONBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- PLUMAS-SIERRA RECBrownfields · 4.2 mi
- 023N013E34Q001MNitrate · 4.6 mi
- DAVID LEE HUMPHREY/DBA CRESCENT TOWBrownfields · 4.7 mi
- COATES INC DBA COATES TIRE CENTER ALSO LES SCHWAB TIRE CENTERBrownfields · 4.7 mi
- RIGGS & SMITH ENTERPRISES INC DBA SIERRA GARAGEBrownfields · 4.7 mi
- PLUMAS COUNTY - PUBLIC WORKSBrownfields · 4.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mohawk Vista'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 Mohawk Vista.
Total Sites
56
within ~10 miles of Mohawk Vista
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mohawk Vista
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mohawk Vista
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mohawk Vista, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mohawk Vista — Mining (10 sites) and Brownfields (37 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Mohawk Vista
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 Mohawk Vista average
Your land is one point inside Mohawk Vista
Everything above resolves to Mohawk Vista as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 8K 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 Mohawk Vista Average
Mohawk Vista Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Mohawk Vista
- ●One soil character for all of Mohawk Vista
- ●Frost dates read at Mohawk Vista's scale: May 11 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mohawk Vista's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mohawk Vista
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mohawk Vista, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mohawk Vista averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mohawk Vista — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mohawk Vista average
How we know this about Mohawk Vista
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 Mohawk Vista’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 Mohawk Vista
When does frost risk typically end in Mohawk Vista?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mohawk Vista typically lands around May 11, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Mohawk Vista?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mohawk Vista typically arrives around Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 1, so the watching starts about Sep 15 — about 157 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mohawk Vista?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mohawk Vista sees about 157 frost-free days — roughly May 11 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 1 to Oct 1, about 122 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mohawk Vista?
The federal record around Mohawk Vista is a meaningful one — 56 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (37), the nearest Brownfields record about 2.3 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 Mohawk Vista?
From about Sep 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mohawk Vista's scale — its 7a band and its 157-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mohawk Vista'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 Mohawk Vista’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mohawk Vista's own scale — its own ~157-day season between 28°F freezes, the 7,660 acres it covers and 56 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mohawk Vista's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mohawk Vista's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 11 and Oct 15 and the ~157-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 56 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mohawk Vista, the closest Brownfields record about 2.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mohawk Vista's boundary and the 7,660 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~157-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mohawk Vista's own centroid, the Sierra NevadaUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mohawk Vista's 7,660 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 Mohawk Vista's 7,660 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mohawk Vista you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 7,660 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 2.3 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 Mohawk Vista-wide figureread your own land →