Kendrick, Idaho, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kendrick, 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 Kendrick 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 Kendrick — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Kendrick — the short answer
Kendrick, Idaho: USDA zone 7b, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 230 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 230 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 7b is Kendrick's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kendrick's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kendrick
Each reading below is measured for Kendrick itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKendrick runs about 225 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
MeasuredKendrick sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Kendrick is in
Kendrick sits in the Northern Rockies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Kendrick's own centroid rather than borrowed from Latah County.
What Grows in Kendrick
Every plant below cleared Kendrick's own zone 7b and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Idaho profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kendrick?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Kendrick
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kendrick. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LEWISTON GRAIN GROWERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- LELAND SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- TEAKEAN BUTTE REMOTE RADIO (1330-BO1)Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Frontier Communications, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- KENDRICK COMPUTER #345Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- BOB'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 38N 02W 17CDB1Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- COOPER'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- 37N 03W 03ABB1Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- JULIAETTA MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- GEM STATE LUMBER COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- 37N 02W 04CDB1Nitrate · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kendrick'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 Kendrick.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kendrick
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kendrick
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kendrick, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Kendrick — Nitrate (38 sites) and Mining (5 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Kendrick
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Kendrick
Everything above resolves to Kendrick as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 230 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 Kendrick Average
Kendrick Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Kendrick
- ●One soil character for all of Kendrick
- ●Frost dates read at Kendrick's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kendrick's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kendrick
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kendrick, Idaho — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Kendrick — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kendrick average
How we know this about Kendrick
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 at Kendrick’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 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 Kendrick
When does frost risk typically end in Kendrick?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kendrick typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Kendrick?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kendrick typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kendrick?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kendrick sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 22, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kendrick?
The federal record around Kendrick shows 68 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (38), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Kendrick?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kendrick's scale — its 7b band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kendrick'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 Kendrick’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kendrick's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 230 acres it covers and 68 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kendrick's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kendrick's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 5 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 68 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kendrick, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kendrick's boundary and the 230 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kendrick's own centroid, the Northern RockiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kendrick's 230 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Latah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Latah County
- The growing challenges every Idaho grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Idaho
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Latah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kendrick's 230 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kendrick you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 230 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Kendrick-wide figureread your own land →
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