Fallon Station, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Fallon Station, 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 Fallon Station lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fallon Station — the short answer
Fallon Station, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 185 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~185
- 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 7a is Fallon Station's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fallon Station's 185-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fallon Station
Each reading below is measured for Fallon Station itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFallon Station runs about 185 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
MeasuredFallon Station 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 Fallon Station is in
Fallon Station sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Fallon Station's own centroid rather than borrowed from Churchill County.
What Grows in Fallon Station
Every plant below cleared Fallon Station's own zone 7a and its 185-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fallon Station?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — 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 Fallon Station
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fallon Station. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- US NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON BRAVO 17Toxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- NAS FALLONToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- NAS FALLONBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- NAS FALLONSuperfund · 0.6 mi
- U.S. NAVY NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON BRAVO 20Toxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- GIBSON AUTOBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- 101 N18 E29 16BBCD1 FCL-49Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 101 N18 E29 20AABC1 USGS CDR-17Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 101 N18 E29 27CDAD1 USGS CDR-18Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 101 N18 E29 28DDCD1 CDP-30Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- 101 N18 E29 13BABA1 FCL-61Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- SIERRA PACIFIC POWER COMPANY FALLON SUBSTATIONBrownfields · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fallon Station'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 Fallon Station.
Total Sites
487
within ~10 miles of Fallon Station
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fallon Station
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fallon Station
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fallon Station, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 364 sites within ~10 miles of Fallon Station. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Fallon Station
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 Fallon Station
Everything above resolves to Fallon Station 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 Fallon Station Average
Fallon Station Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Fallon Station
- ●One soil character for all of Fallon Station
- ●Frost dates read at Fallon Station's scale: Apr 17 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fallon Station's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fallon Station
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fallon Station, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fallon Station averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fallon Station — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fallon Station average
How we know this about Fallon Station
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 Fallon Station’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 Fallon Station
When does frost risk typically end in Fallon Station?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fallon Station typically lands around Apr 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 May 8.
When is the first frost in Fallon Station?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fallon Station typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 185 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fallon Station?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fallon Station sees about 185 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 5, about 150 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fallon Station?
The federal record around Fallon Station is a meaningful one — 487 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (364), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Fallon Station?
From about Sep 19 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fallon Station's scale — its 7a band and its 185-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fallon Station'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 Fallon Station’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Fallon Station's own scale — its own ~185-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,820 acres it covers and 487 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fallon Station's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fallon Station's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Oct 19 and the ~185-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 487 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fallon Station, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fallon Station's boundary and the 1,820 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~185-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fallon Station'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 Fallon Station's 1,820 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Churchill County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Churchill 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 Churchill County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fallon Station's 1,820 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fallon Station you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,820 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 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 Fallon Station-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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