Jackpot, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Jackpot, 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 Jackpot lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Jackpot — the short answer
Jackpot, Nevada: USDA zone 5b, about 129 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~129
- 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 5b is Jackpot's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jackpot's 129-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jackpot
Each reading below is measured for Jackpot itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJackpot runs about 129 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
MeasuredJackpot sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Jackpot is in
Jackpot sits in the Northern Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Jackpot's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Elko County is mostly Central Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Jackpot
Every plant below cleared Jackpot's own zone 5b and its 129-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jackpot?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 24 — 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 Jackpot
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jackpot. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Victor Land and LivestockUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- CACTUS PETES CASINOBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- 040 N47 E64 01CBCD1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
Measured from Jackpot'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 Jackpot.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jackpot
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Jackpot
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 Jackpot
Everything above resolves to Jackpot 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 Jackpot Average
Jackpot Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Jackpot
- ●One soil character for all of Jackpot
- ●Frost dates read at Jackpot's scale: May 18 to Sep 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jackpot's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jackpot
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jackpot, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Jackpot averages can't show:
We read public map data around Jackpot — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Jackpot
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 Jackpot’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 Jackpot
When does frost risk typically end in Jackpot?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jackpot typically lands around May 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Jackpot?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jackpot typically arrives around Sep 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 10, so the watching starts about Aug 25 — about 129 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jackpot?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jackpot sees about 129 frost-free days — roughly May 18 through Sep 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 8 to Sep 10, about 94 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jackpot?
The federal record around Jackpot is light — 4 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (2), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 gardeners stretch the season in Jackpot?
With about 129 frost-free days between hard freezes, Jackpot 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 157 to 185 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 18 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Jackpot's scale — its 5b band and its 129-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jackpot'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 Jackpot’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Jackpot's own scale — its own ~129-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,493 acres it covers and 4 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jackpot's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jackpot's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 18 and Sep 24 and the ~129-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jackpot, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jackpot's boundary and the 2,493 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~129-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Jackpot sits in the Northern Basin and Range — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jackpot's 2,493 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Elko County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Elko 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 Elko County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jackpot's 2,493 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jackpot you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,493 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Jackpot-wide figureread your own land →