Humboldt River Ranch, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Humboldt River Ranch, 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 Humboldt River Ranch lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Humboldt River Ranch — the short answer
Humboldt River Ranch, Nevada: USDA zone 6b, about 162 days between hard freezes, across 13K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~162
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 13K 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 Humboldt River Ranch's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Humboldt River Ranch's 162-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Humboldt River Ranch
Each reading below is measured for Humboldt River Ranch itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHumboldt River Ranch runs about 162 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
MeasuredHumboldt River Ranch 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 Humboldt River Ranch is in
Humboldt River Ranch sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Humboldt River Ranch's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pershing County.
What Grows in Humboldt River Ranch
Every plant below cleared Humboldt River Ranch's own zone 6b and its 162-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Humboldt River Ranch?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 12 — 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 Humboldt River Ranch
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Humboldt River Ranch. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Rye Patch Agnes MineMining · 1.9 mi
- Oreana MineMining · 2.2 mi
- Rye Patch GroupMining · 2.2 mi
- Rye Patch MineMining · 2.3 mi
- Panther Canyon Tungsten ProspectMining · 2.3 mi
- AgnesMining · 2.3 mi
- Oreana Tungsten MineMining · 2.4 mi
- Rye Patch Travel CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- North Panther CanyonMining · 2.5 mi
- Panther Canyon MineMining · 2.6 mi
- Bradley MineMining · 2.7 mi
- Betty La Verne GroupMining · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Humboldt River Ranch'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 Humboldt River Ranch.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Humboldt River Ranch
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Humboldt River Ranch
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Humboldt River Ranch, Mining runs higher than the national average — 97 sites within ~10 miles of Humboldt River Ranch. 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 Humboldt River Ranch
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Humboldt River Ranch average
Your land is one point inside Humboldt River Ranch
Everything above resolves to Humboldt River Ranch as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 13K 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 Humboldt River Ranch Average
Humboldt River Ranch Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Humboldt River Ranch
- ●One soil character for all of Humboldt River Ranch
- ●Frost dates read at Humboldt River Ranch's scale: May 3 to Oct 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Humboldt River Ranch's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Humboldt River Ranch
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Humboldt River Ranch, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Humboldt River Ranch averages can't show:
We read public map data around Humboldt River Ranch — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Humboldt River Ranch average
How we know this about Humboldt River Ranch
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 Humboldt River Ranch’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 Humboldt River Ranch
When does frost risk typically end in Humboldt River Ranch?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Humboldt River Ranch typically lands around May 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Humboldt River Ranch?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Humboldt River Ranch typically arrives around Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 28, so the watching starts about Sep 12 — about 162 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Humboldt River Ranch?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Humboldt River Ranch sees about 162 frost-free days — roughly May 3 through Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 24 to Sep 28, about 127 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Humboldt River Ranch?
The federal record around Humboldt River Ranch runs heavier than most — 106 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (97), the nearest Mining 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 Humboldt River Ranch?
From about Sep 12 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Humboldt River Ranch's scale — its 6b band and its 162-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Humboldt River Ranch'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 Humboldt River Ranch’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Humboldt River Ranch's own scale — its own ~162-day season between 28°F freezes, the 12,917 acres it covers and 106 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Humboldt River Ranch's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Humboldt River Ranch's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 3 and Oct 12 and the ~162-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 106 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Humboldt River Ranch, the closest Mining record about 1.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Humboldt River Ranch's boundary and the 12,917 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~162-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Humboldt River Ranch'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 Humboldt River Ranch's 12,917 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pershing County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pershing 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 Pershing County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Humboldt River Ranch's 12,917 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Humboldt River Ranch you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 12,917 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining 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 Humboldt River Ranch-wide figureread your own land →
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