Incline Village, 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.
Expect cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Incline Village, 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 Incline Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Incline Village — the short answer
Incline Village, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 140 days between hard freezes, across 14K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~140
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 14K 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 Incline Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Incline Village's 140-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Incline Village
Each reading below is measured for Incline Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredIncline Village runs about 140 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
MeasuredIncline Village 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 Incline Village is in
Incline Village sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Incline Village's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Washoe County is mostly Northern Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Incline Village
Every plant below cleared Incline Village's own zone 7a and its 140-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Incline Village?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 10 — 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 Incline Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Incline Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- INCLINE VILLAGE GIDPFAS · 1200 ft
- Ivgid-Mountain Golf CourseUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- 090 N16 E18 10DDC 1Nitrate · 2600 ft
- W Hane J Stapleton J BishopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- F Albert KuckhoffUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Michael E LoveUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 090 N16 E18 15AAB 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- Water Pump Station #4-2 & 5-1Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Incline High SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Championship Golf CourseUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- INCLINE VILLAGE GOLF RESORTBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- GLC 01114Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Incline Village'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 Incline Village.
Total Sites
185
within ~10 miles of Incline Village
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
59 brownfield sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Incline Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Incline Village
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Incline Village
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 Incline Village average
Your land is one point inside Incline Village
Everything above resolves to Incline Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 14K 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 Incline Village Average
Incline Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Incline Village
- ●One soil character for all of Incline Village
- ●Frost dates read at Incline Village's scale: May 23 to Oct 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Incline Village's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Incline Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Incline Village, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Incline Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Incline Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Incline Village average
How we know this about Incline Village
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 Incline Village’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 Incline Village
When does frost risk typically end in Incline Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Incline Village typically lands around May 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Incline Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Incline Village typically arrives around Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 26, so the watching starts about Sep 10 — about 140 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Incline Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Incline Village sees about 140 frost-free days — roughly May 23 through Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 13 to Sep 26, about 105 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Incline Village?
The federal record around Incline Village shows 185 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (80), the nearest PFAS record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Incline Village?
With about 140 frost-free days between hard freezes, Incline Village 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 168 to 196 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 23 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Incline Village's scale — its 7a band and its 140-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Incline Village'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 Incline Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Incline Village's own scale — its own ~140-day season between 28°F freezes, the 13,767 acres it covers and 185 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Incline Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Incline Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 23 and Oct 10 and the ~140-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 185 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Incline Village, the closest PFAS record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Incline Village's boundary and the 13,767 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~140-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Incline Village sits in the Sierra Nevada — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Incline Village's 13,767 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washoe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washoe 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 Washoe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Incline Village's 13,767 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Incline Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 13,767 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record about 0.2 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 Incline Village-wide figureread your own land →
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