Nubieber, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — 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, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Nubieber, 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 Nubieber lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Nubieber — the short answer
Nubieber, California: USDA zone 7a, about 168 days between hard freezes, across 479 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~168
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 479 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 Nubieber's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nubieber's 168-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nubieber
Each reading below is measured for Nubieber itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNubieber runs about 168 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
MeasuredNubieber 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 Nubieber is in
Nubieber sits in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Nubieber's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lassen County.
What Grows in Nubieber
Every plant below cleared Nubieber's own zone 7a and its 168-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nubieber?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 13 — 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 Nubieber
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nubieber. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BURLINGTON NORTHERN AND SANTA FE RAILWAYBrownfields · 450 ft
- 037N007E02D001MNitrate · 0.9 mi
- 038N007E23D001MNitrate · 2.7 mi
- CAL FIREBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- LASSEN COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENTBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- BVJUSD - TRANSPORTATIONBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- MALACHA HYDRO LIMITED PARTNEWSHIPBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- CAL FIRE BIEBER HELITACK BASEBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- HARBERT OIL COMPANY INCBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- HARBERT OIL COMPANY INC DBA RED BARNBrownfields · 6.8 mi
- MIKE SCHROEDER AUTOMOTIVEBrownfields · 6.8 mi
- Red BarnUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
1 more site is on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nubieber'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 Nubieber.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nubieber
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nubieber
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Nubieber
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 Nubieber average
Your land is one point inside Nubieber
Everything above resolves to Nubieber as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 479 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 Nubieber Average
Nubieber Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Nubieber
- ●One soil character for all of Nubieber
- ●Frost dates read at Nubieber's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nubieber's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nubieber
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nubieber, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nubieber averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nubieber — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nubieber average
How we know this about Nubieber
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 Nubieber’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 Nubieber
When does frost risk typically end in Nubieber?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nubieber typically lands around Apr 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 May 19.
When is the first frost in Nubieber?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nubieber typically arrives around Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 29, so the watching starts about Sep 13 — about 168 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nubieber?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nubieber sees about 168 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Sep 29, about 133 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nubieber?
The federal record around Nubieber is light — 15 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Brownfields entries (10), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Nubieber?
From about Sep 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 Oct 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 Oct 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nubieber's scale — its 7a band and its 168-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nubieber'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 Nubieber’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Nubieber's own scale — its own ~168-day season between 28°F freezes, the 479 acres it covers and 15 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nubieber's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nubieber's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 13 and the ~168-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 15 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nubieber, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nubieber's boundary and the 479 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~168-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nubieber's own centroid, the Eastern Cascades Slopes and FoothillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nubieber's 479 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lassen County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lassen 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 Lassen County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nubieber's 479 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nubieber you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 479 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Nubieber-wide figureread your own land →
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