Pine Mountain Club, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Pine Mountain Club, 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 Pine Mountain Club lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pine Mountain Club — the short answer
Pine Mountain Club, California: USDA zone 8a, about 173 days between hard freezes, across 11K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~173
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 11K 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 8a is Pine Mountain Club's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Mountain Club's 173-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pine Mountain Club
Each reading below is measured for Pine Mountain Club itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPine Mountain Club runs about 173 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
MeasuredPine Mountain Club sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Pine Mountain Club is in
Pine Mountain Club sits in the Southern California Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Pine Mountain Club's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Kern County is mostly Central California Valley. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Pine Mountain Club
Every plant below cleared Pine Mountain Club's own zone 8a and its 173-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pine Mountain Club?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Pine Mountain Club
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine Mountain Club. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BORICUA TRANSPORTBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- PACIFIC BELL C/O CD PACKER 5A322Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- PINE MTN SERV CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 009N021W19E001SNitrate · 0.8 mi
- PINE MOUNTAIN CLUBBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- RICHARDS H ERICKSONBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- 009N021W21E001SNitrate · 2.0 mi
- Antimony Peak MineMining · 4.1 mi
- San Emigdio-Antimony PeakMining · 4.2 mi
- 009N021W23Q001SNitrate · 4.6 mi
- NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS LLCBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- Big Pine GroupMining · 5.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine Mountain Club'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 Pine Mountain Club.
Total Sites
26
within ~10 miles of Pine Mountain Club
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine Mountain Club
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine Mountain Club
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pine Mountain Club, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pine Mountain Club — Mining (4 sites) and Nitrate (8 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Pine Mountain Club
Everything above resolves to Pine Mountain Club as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 11K 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 Pine Mountain Club Average
Pine Mountain Club Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Pine Mountain Club
- ●One soil character for all of Pine Mountain Club
- ●Frost dates read at Pine Mountain Club's scale: May 12 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine Mountain Club's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine Mountain Club, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Pine Mountain Club — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Mountain Club average
How we know this about Pine Mountain Club
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 Pine Mountain Club’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 Pine Mountain Club
When does frost risk typically end in Pine Mountain Club?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Mountain Club typically lands around May 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Pine Mountain Club?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Mountain Club typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 173 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pine Mountain Club?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pine Mountain Club sees about 173 frost-free days — roughly May 12 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 2 to Oct 18, about 138 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pine Mountain Club?
The federal record around Pine Mountain Club is a meaningful one — 26 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (10), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 Pine Mountain Club?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pine Mountain Club's scale — its 8a band and its 173-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Mountain Club'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 Pine Mountain Club’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pine Mountain Club's own scale — its own ~173-day season between 28°F freezes, the 10,785 acres it covers and 26 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine Mountain Club's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pine Mountain Club's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 12 and Nov 1 and the ~173-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 26 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Mountain Club, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine Mountain Club's boundary and the 10,785 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~173-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pine Mountain Club sits in the Southern California Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pine Mountain Club's 10,785 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kern County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kern 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 Kern County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pine Mountain Club's 10,785 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine Mountain Club you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 10,785 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 Pine Mountain Club-wide figureread your own land →