Double Spring, 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.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Double Spring, 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 Double Spring lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Double Spring — the short answer
Double Spring, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 149 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~149
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Double Spring's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Double Spring's 149-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Double Spring
Each reading below is measured for Double Spring itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDouble Spring runs about 149 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredDouble Spring 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 Double Spring is in
Double Spring sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Double Spring's own centroid rather than borrowed from Douglas County.
What Grows in Double Spring
Every plant below cleared Double Spring's own zone 7a and its 149-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Double Spring?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a season this compact, fast finishers and cold-hardy greens do the late work, and garlic tucked in before the freeze repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Double Spring
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Double Spring. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 105 N11 E21 35ABB 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- Black Jack ProspectMining · 1.2 mi
- Lucky LiquorsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- ARCO ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATIONBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- GARDNERVILLE WATER COMPANYPFAS · 3.0 mi
- Danite MineMining · 3.1 mi
- Topaz Lake County ParkUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Veta Grande MineMining · 3.9 mi
- Last Dollar ClaimMining · 4.2 mi
- Lead-Zinc OccurrenceMining · 4.3 mi
- Ruby Hill MineMining · 5.0 mi
- A and C MineMining · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Double Spring'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 Double Spring.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Double Spring
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Double Spring
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Double Spring, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Double Spring — Mining (55 sites) and Nitrate (150 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).
Check your specific parcel in Double Spring
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 Double Spring
Everything above resolves to Double Spring as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 Double Spring Average
Double Spring Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Double Spring
- ●One soil character for all of Double Spring
- ●Frost dates read at Double Spring's scale: May 17 to Oct 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Double Spring's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Double Spring
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Double Spring, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Double Spring averages can't show:
We read public map data around Double Spring — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Double Spring average
How we know this about Double Spring
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 Double Spring’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 Double Spring
When does frost risk typically end in Double Spring?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Double Spring typically lands around May 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Double Spring?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Double Spring typically arrives around Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 29, so the watching starts about Sep 13 — about 149 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Double Spring?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Double Spring sees about 149 frost-free days — roughly May 17 through Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 7 to Sep 29, about 114 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Double Spring?
The federal record around Double Spring runs heavier than most — 222 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (150), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.2 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 gardeners stretch the season in Double Spring?
With about 149 frost-free days between hard freezes, Double Spring rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 177 to 205 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 17 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Double Spring's scale — its 7a band and its 149-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Double Spring'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 Double Spring’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Double Spring's own scale — its own ~149-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,610 acres it covers and 222 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Double Spring's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Double Spring's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 17 and Oct 13 and the ~149-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 222 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Double Spring, the closest Nitrate record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Double Spring's boundary and the 5,610 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~149-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Double Spring'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 Double Spring's 5,610 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Douglas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Douglas 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 Douglas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Double Spring's 5,610 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Double Spring you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,610 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.2 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 Double Spring-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across NevadaDouble Spring sits outside our named growing regions, so Nevada as a whole is its closest context here.
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