Beaverdam, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — 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, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Beaverdam, 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 Beaverdam lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beaverdam — the short answer
Beaverdam, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 179 days between hard freezes, across 440 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~179
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 440 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 7a is Beaverdam's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beaverdam's 179-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beaverdam
Each reading below is measured for Beaverdam itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeaverdam runs about 179 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
MeasuredBeaverdam sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Beaverdam is in
Beaverdam sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Beaverdam's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lincoln County.
What Grows in Beaverdam
Every plant below cleared Beaverdam's own zone 7a and its 179-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beaverdam?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 17 — 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 Beaverdam
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beaverdam. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 203 S03 E67 14ACAB1Nitrate · 550 ft
- Soa Lode ClaimMining · 3.6 mi
- Soa Lode ClaimsMining · 3.6 mi
- AdvanceMining · 3.6 mi
- Gold ChiefMining · 3.6 mi
- Gold ChiefminemineMining · 3.6 mi
- Gold Stake TunnelMining · 3.8 mi
- NBMG Sample Location 126Mining · 3.9 mi
- Advance MineMining · 3.9 mi
- Lucky ChiefMining · 4.0 mi
- Lucky Hobo Mine and Vicinity. Mine and Vicinity.Mining · 4.0 mi
- Republic MineMining · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beaverdam'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 Beaverdam.
Total Sites
60
within ~10 miles of Beaverdam
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beaverdam
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beaverdam
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beaverdam, Mining runs higher than the national average — 30 sites within ~10 miles of Beaverdam. 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.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Beaverdam
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 Beaverdam
Everything above resolves to Beaverdam as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 440 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 Beaverdam Average
Beaverdam Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Beaverdam
- ●One soil character for all of Beaverdam
- ●Frost dates read at Beaverdam's scale: Apr 21 to Oct 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beaverdam's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beaverdam
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beaverdam, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beaverdam averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beaverdam — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beaverdam average
How we know this about Beaverdam
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 Beaverdam’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 Beaverdam
When does frost risk typically end in Beaverdam?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beaverdam typically lands around Apr 21, 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 May 12.
When is the first frost in Beaverdam?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beaverdam typically arrives around Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 3, so the watching starts about Sep 17 — about 179 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beaverdam?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beaverdam sees about 179 frost-free days — roughly Apr 21 through Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 12 to Oct 3, about 144 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beaverdam?
The federal record around Beaverdam runs heavier than most — 60 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (30), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.1 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 Beaverdam?
From about Sep 17 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 Oct 17 (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 Oct 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beaverdam's scale — its 7a band and its 179-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beaverdam'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 Beaverdam’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Beaverdam's own scale — its own ~179-day season between 28°F freezes, the 440 acres it covers and 60 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beaverdam's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beaverdam's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 21 and Oct 17 and the ~179-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 60 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beaverdam, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beaverdam's boundary and the 440 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~179-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beaverdam's own centroid, the Central Basin and RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beaverdam's 440 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lincoln County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lincoln County
- The growing challenges every Nevada grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Nevada
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Lincoln County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beaverdam's 440 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beaverdam you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 440 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Beaverdam-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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