Soulsbyville, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Soulsbyville, 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 Soulsbyville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Soulsbyville — the short answer
Soulsbyville, California: USDA zone 8b, about 257 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~257
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 8b is Soulsbyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Soulsbyville's 257-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Soulsbyville
Each reading below is measured for Soulsbyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSoulsbyville runs about 257 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredSoulsbyville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Soulsbyville is in
Soulsbyville sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Soulsbyville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tuolumne County.
What Grows in Soulsbyville
Every plant below cleared Soulsbyville's own zone 8b and its 257-day season. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Soulsbyville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Soulsbyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Soulsbyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SOULSBY GROUPSuperfund · 1100 ft
- Soulsby GroupMining · 1100 ft
- PAT'S MACHINE SHOPBrownfields · 2000 ft
- Soulsby BelleMining · 2200 ft
- QUALITY TRANSMISSIONSBrownfields · 2200 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL #15467Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- Reich's OutpostUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- REICHS OUTPOSTBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- MMIBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- AHEARN'S TOWINGBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- NIEVES ENTERPRISE INC DBA MIGUELS AUTO SERVICEBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Louisiana GroupMining · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Soulsbyville'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 Soulsbyville.
Total Sites
313
within ~10 miles of Soulsbyville
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Soulsbyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Soulsbyville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Soulsbyville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Soulsbyville — Mining (38 sites) and PFAS (4 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Soulsbyville
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 Soulsbyville average
Your land is one point inside Soulsbyville
Everything above resolves to Soulsbyville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Soulsbyville Average
Soulsbyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Soulsbyville
- ●One soil character for all of Soulsbyville
- ●Frost dates read at Soulsbyville's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Soulsbyville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Soulsbyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Soulsbyville, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Soulsbyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Soulsbyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Soulsbyville average
How we know this about Soulsbyville
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 Soulsbyville’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 Soulsbyville
When does frost risk typically end in Soulsbyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Soulsbyville typically lands around Mar 18, 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 Apr 8.
When is the first frost in Soulsbyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Soulsbyville typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 257 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Soulsbyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Soulsbyville sees about 257 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Nov 16, about 222 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Soulsbyville?
The federal record around Soulsbyville runs heavier than most — 313 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (232), the nearest Superfund record about 0.2 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 Soulsbyville?
From about Oct 31 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Soulsbyville's scale — its 8b band and its 257-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Soulsbyville'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 Soulsbyville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Soulsbyville's own scale — its own ~257-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,926 acres it covers and 313 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Soulsbyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Soulsbyville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 30 and the ~257-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 313 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Soulsbyville, the closest Superfund record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Soulsbyville's boundary and the 1,926 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~257-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Soulsbyville's own centroid, the Sierra NevadaUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Soulsbyville's 1,926 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tuolumne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tuolumne 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 Tuolumne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Soulsbyville's 1,926 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Soulsbyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,926 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 0.2 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 Soulsbyville-wide figureread your own land →