Round Hill Village, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Round Hill 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 Round Hill 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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Round Hill Village — the short answer
Round Hill Village, Nevada: USDA zone 6b, about 133 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~133
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 6b is Round Hill Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Round Hill Village's 133-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Round Hill Village
Each reading below is measured for Round Hill Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRound Hill Village runs about 133 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
MeasuredRound Hill Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Round Hill Village is in
Round Hill Village sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Round Hill Village'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 Round Hill Village
Every plant below cleared Round Hill Village's own zone 6b and its 133-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Round Hill Village?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 8 — 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 Round Hill Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Round Hill Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 090 N13 E18 14DCC 1 Douglas Co SID 3Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- 090 N13 E18 23ABB 1 Douglas Co SID 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- Wastewater Reclamation PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- SAFEWAY STORE #1537Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- OPTICOMP CORPORATIONBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- Round Hill Gen Improvement DistrictUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- DENTAL REFINERS, INC.Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- Fred P AlexanderUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- PDQ Dry CleanersUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- TAHOE AUTO AND MARINEBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- 090 N13 E18 23BBC 1 Douglas Co SID 4Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- MANCHESTER YARDBrownfields · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Round Hill 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 Round Hill Village.
Total Sites
853
within ~10 miles of Round Hill Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Round Hill Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Round Hill Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Round Hill Village, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 504 sites within ~10 miles of Round Hill Village. 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 Round Hill 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 Round Hill Village average
Your land is one point inside Round Hill Village
Everything above resolves to Round Hill Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Round Hill Village Average
Round Hill Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Round Hill Village
- ●One soil character for all of Round Hill Village
- ●Frost dates read at Round Hill Village's scale: May 28 to Oct 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Round Hill Village's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Round Hill Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Round Hill Village, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Round Hill Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Round Hill Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Round Hill Village average
How we know this about Round Hill 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 Round Hill 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 Round Hill Village
When does frost risk typically end in Round Hill Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Round Hill Village typically lands around May 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Round Hill Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Round Hill Village typically arrives around Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 24, so the watching starts about Sep 8 — about 133 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Round Hill Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Round Hill Village sees about 133 frost-free days — roughly May 28 through Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 18 to Sep 24, about 98 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Round Hill Village?
The federal record around Round Hill Village is a meaningful one — 853 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (504), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.1 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 Round Hill Village?
With about 133 frost-free days between hard freezes, Round Hill 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 161 to 189 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 28 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Round Hill Village's scale — its 6b band and its 133-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Round Hill 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 Round Hill Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Round Hill Village's own scale — its own ~133-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,708 acres it covers and 853 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Round Hill Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Round Hill Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 28 and Oct 8 and the ~133-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 853 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Round Hill Village, the closest Nitrate record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Round Hill Village's boundary and the 3,708 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~133-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Round Hill 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 Round Hill Village's 3,708 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 Round Hill Village's 3,708 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Round Hill 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 3,708 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.1 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 Round Hill Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across NevadaRound Hill Village sits outside our named growing regions, so Nevada as a whole is its closest context here.
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