Logan Creek, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Logan Creek, 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 Logan Creek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Logan Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Logan Creek — the short answer
Logan Creek, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 142 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~142
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Logan Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Logan Creek's 142-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Logan Creek
Each reading below is measured for Logan Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLogan Creek runs about 142 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
MeasuredLogan Creek 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 Logan Creek is in
Logan Creek sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Logan Creek'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 Logan Creek
Every plant below cleared Logan Creek's own zone 7a and its 142-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Logan Creek?
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 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. When the window is tight, the fall moves are quick ones — baby greens, radishes, and garlic set for next season.
What's on the federal record near Logan Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Logan Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 090 N14 E18 15DCA 1Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- Logan Shoals HarborUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Whispering Pines *farm Tank*Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- UPPAWAY WATER STORAGE TANKBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- Waters EdgeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- Biller ResidenceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- Glenbrook CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- 090 N14 E18 10ADA 1 Glenbrook Well 3Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- Mannys Cave Rock InnUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- Cave Rock Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- 090 N14 E18 10ADB 1 Glenbrook Well 1Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- 090 N14 E18 10ABD 1 Glenbrook Well 2Nitrate · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Logan Creek'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 Logan Creek.
Total Sites
604
within ~10 miles of Logan Creek
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Logan Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Logan Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Logan Creek, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 374 sites within ~10 miles of Logan Creek. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Logan Creek
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 Logan Creek average
Your land is one point inside Logan Creek
Everything above resolves to Logan Creek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Logan Creek Average
Logan Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Logan Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Logan Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Logan Creek's scale: May 24 to Oct 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Logan Creek's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Logan Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Logan Creek, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Logan Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Logan Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Logan Creek average
How we know this about Logan Creek
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 Logan Creek’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 Logan Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Logan Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Logan Creek typically lands around May 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Logan Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Logan Creek typically arrives around Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 29, so the watching starts about Sep 13 — about 142 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Logan Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Logan Creek sees about 142 frost-free days — roughly May 24 through Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 14 to Sep 29, about 107 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Logan Creek?
The federal record around Logan Creek is a meaningful one — 604 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (374), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Logan Creek?
With about 142 frost-free days between hard freezes, Logan Creek 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 170 to 198 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 24 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Logan Creek's scale — its 7a band and its 142-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Logan Creek'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 Logan Creek’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Logan Creek's own scale — its own ~142-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,121 acres it covers and 604 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Logan Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Logan Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 24 and Oct 13 and the ~142-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 604 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Logan Creek, the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Logan Creek's boundary and the 1,121 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~142-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Logan Creek 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 Logan Creek's 1,121 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 Logan Creek's 1,121 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Logan Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,121 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Logan Creek-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across NevadaLogan Creek sits outside our named growing regions, so Nevada as a whole is its closest context here.
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