Bennett Springs, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bennett Springs, 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 Bennett Springs lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bennett Springs — the short answer
Bennett Springs, Nevada: USDA zone 6b, about 179 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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
- 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 6b is Bennett Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bennett Springs's 179-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bennett Springs
Each reading below is measured for Bennett Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBennett Springs 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
MeasuredBennett Springs sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Bennett Springs is in
Bennett Springs sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Bennett Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lincoln County.
What Grows in Bennett Springs
Every plant below cleared Bennett Springs's own zone 6b and its 179-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bennett Springs?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Bennett Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bennett Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 203 S03 E67 14ACAB1Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- Soa Lode ClaimMining · 2.8 mi
- Soa Lode ClaimsMining · 2.8 mi
- Gold ChiefMining · 2.9 mi
- Gold ChiefminemineMining · 2.9 mi
- AdvanceMining · 3.0 mi
- Lucky ChiefMining · 3.2 mi
- Gold Stake TunnelMining · 3.2 mi
- NBMG Sample Location 126Mining · 3.4 mi
- Lucky Hobo Mine and Vicinity. Mine and Vicinity.Mining · 3.4 mi
- Advance MineMining · 3.4 mi
- Lucky Hobo MineMining · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bennett Springs'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 Bennett Springs.
Total Sites
56
within ~10 miles of Bennett Springs
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bennett Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bennett Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bennett Springs, Mining runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of Bennett Springs. 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 Bennett Springs
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 Bennett Springs
Everything above resolves to Bennett Springs 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 Bennett Springs Average
Bennett Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Bennett Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Bennett Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Bennett Springs's scale: Apr 21 to Oct 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bennett Springs's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bennett Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bennett Springs, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bennett Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bennett Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bennett Springs average
How we know this about Bennett Springs
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 Bennett Springs’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 Bennett Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Bennett Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bennett Springs 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 Bennett Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bennett Springs 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 Bennett Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bennett Springs 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 Bennett Springs?
The federal record around Bennett Springs runs heavier than most — 56 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (26), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.9 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 Bennett Springs?
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 Bennett Springs's scale — its 6b band and its 179-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bennett Springs'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 Bennett Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bennett Springs's own scale — its own ~179-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,167 acres it covers and 56 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bennett Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bennett Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 21 and Oct 17 and the ~179-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 56 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bennett Springs, the closest Nitrate record about 1.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bennett Springs's boundary and the 2,167 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~179-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bennett Springs'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 Bennett Springs's 2,167 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 Bennett Springs's 2,167 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bennett Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,167 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.9 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 Bennett Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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