Old Fig Garden, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Old Fig Garden, 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 Old Fig Garden 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 Old Fig Garden — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Old Fig Garden — the short answer
Old Fig Garden, California: USDA zone 9b, about 329 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 16
- Fresno County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 11
- Fresno County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~329
- Fresno County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Fresno County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Old Fig Garden's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Old Fig Garden's 329-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Old Fig Garden
Each reading below is measured for Old Fig Garden itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsOld Fig Garden runs about 329 days between hard freezes (read from Fresno County, the closest normal to Old Fig Garden) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredOld Fig Garden sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Old Fig Garden is in
Old Fig Garden sits in the Central California Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Old Fig Garden's own centroid rather than borrowed from Fresno County.
What Grows in Old Fig Garden
Every plant below cleared Old Fig Garden's own zone 9b and its 329-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Old Fig Garden?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Old Fig Garden
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Old Fig Garden. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- THE WELL COMMUNITY CHURCHBrownfields · 1500 ft
- GLENN & KIM REIDBrownfields · 1900 ft
- POWERS-GINSBURG ELEMENTARYBrownfields · 1900 ft
- FRESNO USD WAWONA MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 2300 ft
- FRESNO USD GINBURG ELEMENTARY SCHBrownfields · 2600 ft
- DAVID MOECKBrownfields · 2600 ft
- LEONARDO MENDEZ HERNANDEZBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- PACIFIC BELL TELEPHONE CO (DBA AT&T CA)Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- ESTHER & ROBERT LANGOBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- WHOLE FOODS MARKET INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #9994Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- DEL MAR ELEMENTARYBrownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Old Fig Garden'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 Old Fig Garden.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Old Fig Garden
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Old Fig Garden
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Old Fig Garden, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 2,874 sites within ~10 miles of Old Fig Garden. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Old Fig Garden
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 Old Fig Garden average
Your land is one point inside Old Fig Garden
Everything above resolves to Old Fig Garden as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Fresno County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Old Fig Garden Average
Old Fig Garden Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Old Fig Garden
- ●One soil character for all of Old Fig Garden
- ●Frost dates read at Old Fig Garden's scale: Jan 16 to Dec 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Old Fig Garden's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Old Fig Garden
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Old Fig Garden, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Old Fig Garden averages can't show:
We read public map data around Old Fig Garden — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Old Fig Garden average
How we know this about Old Fig Garden
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 Fresno County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Old Fig Garden
When does frost risk typically end in Old Fig Garden?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Old Fig Garden typically lands around Jan 16, 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 Feb 6.
When is the first frost in Old Fig Garden?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Old Fig Garden typically arrives around Dec 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 27, so the watching starts about Nov 11 — about 329 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Old Fig Garden?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Old Fig Garden sees about 329 frost-free days — roughly Jan 16 through Dec 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 6 to Nov 27, about 294 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Old Fig Garden?
The federal record around Old Fig Garden runs heavier than most — 3,357 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (2,874), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Old Fig Garden?
From about Nov 11 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Old Fig Garden's scale — its 9b band and its 329-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Old Fig Garden'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 Old Fig Garden’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Old Fig Garden's own scale — the 1,066 acres it covers and 3,357 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Old Fig Garden's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 3,357 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Old Fig Garden, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Old Fig Garden's boundary and the 1,066 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~329-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Old Fig Garden's own centroid, the Central California ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Old Fig Garden has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Fresno County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Old Fig Garden's 1,066 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fresno County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fresno 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 Fresno County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Old Fig Garden's 1,066 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Old Fig Garden you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,066 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Old Fig Garden-wide figureread your own land →