Hiko, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Hiko, 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 Hiko lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hiko — the short answer
Hiko, Nevada: USDA zone 7b, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 15K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- 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
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 15K 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 Hiko's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hiko's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hiko
Each reading below is measured for Hiko itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHiko runs about 219 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
MeasuredHiko 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 Hiko is in
Hiko sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Hiko's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lincoln County.
What Grows in Hiko
Every plant below cleared Hiko's own zone 7b and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hiko?
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 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (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 Hiko
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hiko. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Cherry Creek Guard Station-ClosedUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- R Place #3Underground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- Peter IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.2 mi
Measured from Hiko'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 Hiko.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hiko
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Hiko
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 Hiko
Everything above resolves to Hiko as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 15K 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 Hiko Average
Hiko Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Hiko
- ●One soil character for all of Hiko
- ●Frost dates read at Hiko's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hiko's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hiko
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hiko, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hiko averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hiko — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hiko average
How we know this about Hiko
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 Hiko’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 Hiko
When does frost risk typically end in Hiko?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hiko typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Hiko?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hiko 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 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hiko?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hiko sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 22, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hiko?
The federal record around Hiko is light — 3 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (3), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.7 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Hiko?
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 Hiko's scale — its 7b band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hiko'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 Hiko’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hiko's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 14,984 acres it covers and 3 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hiko's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hiko's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 5 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hiko, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hiko's boundary and the 14,984 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hiko'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 Hiko's 14,984 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 Hiko's 14,984 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hiko you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 14,984 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.7 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 Hiko-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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