Mogul, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mogul, 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 Mogul lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mogul — the short answer
Mogul, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 186 days between hard freezes, across 931 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~186
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 931 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 Mogul's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mogul's 186-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mogul
Each reading below is measured for Mogul itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMogul runs about 186 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
MeasuredMogul 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 Mogul is in
Mogul sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Mogul'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 Mogul
Every plant below cleared Mogul's own zone 7a and its 186-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mogul?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
What's on the federal record near Mogul
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mogul. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 091 N19 E18 14ACBC1 Washoe Co - W-10Nitrate · 1100 ft
- Washoe Power House-ClosedUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- QUALICHEM, INC. (PLANT 3)Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- Morrey Distributing CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- GARLOCK PRINTING & CONVERTING WESTToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- GARLOCK PRINTING & CONVERTING WESTBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- Truckee Meadows Station #2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Northgate Golf CourseUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- 087 N19 E19 19BAAB1 USGS - Mayberry Park 1Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- Maverik Store #427Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Jacksons Food Stores #132Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- NORTHWEST SPECIALTY HOSPITAL, AN EXTENSION OF NORTHERN NEVADA MEDICAL CENTERBrownfields · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mogul'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 Mogul.
Total Sites
1,440
within ~10 miles of Mogul
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mogul
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mogul
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 Mogul
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 Mogul average
Your land is one point inside Mogul
Everything above resolves to Mogul as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 931 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 Mogul Average
Mogul Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Mogul
- ●One soil character for all of Mogul
- ●Frost dates read at Mogul's scale: Apr 22 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mogul's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mogul
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mogul, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mogul averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mogul — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mogul average
How we know this about Mogul
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 Mogul’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 Mogul
When does frost risk typically end in Mogul?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mogul typically lands around Apr 22, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Mogul?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mogul typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 186 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mogul?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mogul sees about 186 frost-free days — roughly Apr 22 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 13 to Oct 11, about 151 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mogul?
The federal record around Mogul runs heavier than most — 1,440 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (789), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Mogul?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mogul's scale — its 7a band and its 186-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mogul'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 Mogul’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mogul's own scale — its own ~186-day season between 28°F freezes, the 931 acres it covers and 1,440 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mogul's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mogul's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 22 and Oct 25 and the ~186-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,440 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mogul, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mogul's boundary and the 931 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~186-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Mogul sits in the Central 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 Mogul's 931 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 Mogul's 931 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mogul you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 931 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Mogul-wide figureread your own land →
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