Paramount, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Paramount, 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 Paramount 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 Paramount — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Paramount — the short answer
Paramount, California: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- City area
- 3K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. The year-round finding is measured — a 30-year record with no 28°F killing freeze in it — never inferred from missing dates.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10b is Paramount's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Paramount's no killing freeze on record, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Paramount
Each reading below is measured for Paramount itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredParamount sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b.
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 Paramount is in
Paramount sits in the Southern California/Northern Baja Coast — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Paramount's own centroid rather than borrowed from Los Angeles County.
What Grows in Paramount
Every plant below cleared Paramount's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Paramount
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Paramount. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PARAMOUNT - CITY, WATER DEPT.PFAS · 0 ft
- GSWC - HOLLYDALEPFAS · 0 ft
- RALPHS GROCERY COMPANYBrownfields · 250 ft
- SOPHISTICOLOR, INCBrownfields · 600 ft
- APOLLO TECHNOLOGY INCBrownfields · 650 ft
- CERRO METAL PRODUCTS COMPANYBrownfields · 750 ft
- CERRO METAL PRODUCTS COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 750 ft
- SHERWIN WILLIAMS #8544Brownfields · 900 ft
- LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT - FS 031Brownfields · 900 ft
- J & K MANUFACTURING INCBrownfields · 900 ft
- PARAMOUNT AUTO BODY AND PAINTBrownfields · 950 ft
- PREMIER MAILING INCBrownfields · 1000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Paramount'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 Paramount.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Paramount
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Paramount
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Paramount, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 16,809 sites within ~10 miles of Paramount. 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 Paramount
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 Paramount average
Your land is one point inside Paramount
Everything above resolves to Paramount as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 city 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 Paramount Average
Paramount Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Paramount
- ●One soil character for all of Paramount
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Paramount's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Paramount
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Paramount, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Paramount averages can't show:
We read public map data around Paramount — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Paramount average
How we know this about Paramount
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals, with the labelled statewide window where none resolves; 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Paramount
Is it too late to plant in Paramount?
No — Paramount has no 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record, so the growing season is year-round and there is no last-frost date to wait for. Planting is paced by rainfall, heat and daylength instead of by frost: start heat-lovers any month, and time cool-season crops (lettuce, brassicas, peas) for the cooler, wetter half of the year or for higher ground. Succession sowing every few weeks works all year, so the limit is what you can keep watered and harvested, not the calendar.
When does frost risk typically end in Paramount?
It doesn't — Paramount records no 28°F killing freeze at all across the 1991–2020 station record, so there is no spring frost date to plant after. Cold still matters with elevation: the higher you garden, the cooler the nights, and a few tropical crops sulk below about 60°F even where they never freeze.
How long is the growing season in Paramount?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Paramount contains no 28°F killing freeze, so there is no season to measure between freezes. What paces planting instead is heat, rainfall and daylength: the hottest, wettest stretch is the hard part for cool-season crops, not winter. Elevation is the one real exception — the higher you garden, the colder the nights get.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Paramount?
The federal record around Paramount runs heavier than most — 19,561 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (16,809), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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.
Everything above is measured at Paramount's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Paramount'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 Paramount’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Paramount's own scale — the 3,025 acres it covers and 19,561 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Paramount's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Paramount — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 19,561 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Paramount, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Paramount's boundary and the 3,025 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Paramount's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Paramount's own centroid, the Southern California/Northern Baja CoastUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Paramount's 3,025 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Los Angeles County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Paramount's 3,025 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Paramount you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,025 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS 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 Paramount-wide figureread your own land →