Kingsbury, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Kingsbury, 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 Kingsbury lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kingsbury — the short answer
Kingsbury, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 135 days between hard freezes, across 14K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~135
- 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 Kingsbury's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kingsbury's 135-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kingsbury
Each reading below is measured for Kingsbury itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKingsbury runs about 135 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
MeasuredKingsbury 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 Kingsbury is in
Kingsbury sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Kingsbury's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Douglas County is mostly Central Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Kingsbury
Every plant below cleared Kingsbury's own zone 7a and its 135-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kingsbury?
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 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even here the calendar’s edges hold value: thirty-day greens late in the window, then garlic and a rested bed for spring.
What's on the federal record near Kingsbury
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kingsbury. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 090 N13 E19 18CDB 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- Tahoe Douglas Fire Pro Dist #1Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Granite GroupMining · 1.3 mi
- MANCHESTER YARDBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- Logging Road at Lake TahoeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Section 21 ProspectMining · 1.9 mi
- Genoa ClaimsMining · 1.9 mi
- 105 N13 E19 09DACA1Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- 105 N13 E19 09ADCA1Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- Genoa VFD Fire StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- 105 N13 E19 09DABA1Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- 105 N13 E19 09ADCD1Nitrate · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kingsbury'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 Kingsbury.
Total Sites
1,112
within ~10 miles of Kingsbury
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kingsbury
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kingsbury
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kingsbury, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 716 sites within ~10 miles of Kingsbury. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Kingsbury
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 Kingsbury average
Your land is one point inside Kingsbury
Everything above resolves to Kingsbury 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 Kingsbury Average
Kingsbury Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Kingsbury
- ●One soil character for all of Kingsbury
- ●Frost dates read at Kingsbury's scale: May 27 to Oct 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kingsbury's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kingsbury
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kingsbury, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kingsbury averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kingsbury — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kingsbury average
How we know this about Kingsbury
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 Kingsbury’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 Kingsbury
When does frost risk typically end in Kingsbury?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kingsbury typically lands around May 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Kingsbury?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kingsbury typically arrives around Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 25, so the watching starts about Sep 9 — about 135 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kingsbury?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kingsbury sees about 135 frost-free days — roughly May 27 through Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 17 to Sep 25, about 100 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kingsbury?
The federal record around Kingsbury is a meaningful one — 1,112 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (716), the nearest Nitrate 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 gardeners stretch the season in Kingsbury?
With about 135 frost-free days between hard freezes, Kingsbury 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 163 to 191 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 27 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Kingsbury's scale — its 7a band and its 135-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kingsbury'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 Kingsbury’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kingsbury's own scale — its own ~135-day season between 28°F freezes, the 13,958 acres it covers and 1,112 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kingsbury's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kingsbury's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 27 and Oct 9 and the ~135-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,112 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kingsbury, the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kingsbury's boundary and the 13,958 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~135-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Kingsbury 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 Kingsbury's 13,958 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Douglas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Douglas 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 Douglas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kingsbury's 13,958 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kingsbury you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 13,958 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Kingsbury-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across NevadaKingsbury sits outside our named growing regions, so Nevada as a whole is its closest context here.
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