Ruhenstroth, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Ruhenstroth, 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 Ruhenstroth lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ruhenstroth — the short answer
Ruhenstroth, Nevada: USDA zone 6b, about 153 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~153
- 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 6b is Ruhenstroth's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ruhenstroth's 153-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ruhenstroth
Each reading below is measured for Ruhenstroth itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRuhenstroth runs about 153 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
MeasuredRuhenstroth 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 Ruhenstroth is in
Ruhenstroth sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Ruhenstroth's own centroid rather than borrowed from Douglas County.
What Grows in Ruhenstroth
Every plant below cleared Ruhenstroth's own zone 6b and its 153-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ruhenstroth?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 11 — 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 Ruhenstroth
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ruhenstroth. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 105 N12 E20 24ACAA1Nitrate · 250 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24ABCD1Nitrate · 550 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24ACDD1Nitrate · 550 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24AACANitrate · 850 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24ADCB1Nitrate · 900 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24ADCC2Nitrate · 950 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24ABCA1Nitrate · 1000 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24BDAA1Nitrate · 1100 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24BDAD1Nitrate · 1100 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24ADCD1Nitrate · 1100 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24ACCC1Nitrate · 1200 ft
- 105 N12 E20 24AADC1Nitrate · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ruhenstroth'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 Ruhenstroth.
Total Sites
703
within ~10 miles of Ruhenstroth
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ruhenstroth
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ruhenstroth
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ruhenstroth, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 542 sites within ~10 miles of Ruhenstroth. 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 Ruhenstroth
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 Ruhenstroth average
Your land is one point inside Ruhenstroth
Everything above resolves to Ruhenstroth 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 Ruhenstroth Average
Ruhenstroth Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Ruhenstroth
- ●One soil character for all of Ruhenstroth
- ●Frost dates read at Ruhenstroth's scale: May 11 to Oct 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ruhenstroth's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ruhenstroth
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ruhenstroth, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Ruhenstroth — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ruhenstroth average
How we know this about Ruhenstroth
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 Ruhenstroth’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 Ruhenstroth
When does frost risk typically end in Ruhenstroth?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ruhenstroth typically lands around May 11, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Ruhenstroth?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ruhenstroth typically arrives around Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 27, so the watching starts about Sep 11 — about 153 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ruhenstroth?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ruhenstroth sees about 153 frost-free days — roughly May 11 through Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 1 to Sep 27, about 118 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ruhenstroth?
The federal record around Ruhenstroth is a meaningful one — 703 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (542), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 I protect my plants from frost in Ruhenstroth?
From about Sep 11 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ruhenstroth's scale — its 6b band and its 153-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ruhenstroth'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 Ruhenstroth’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Ruhenstroth's own scale — its own ~153-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,813 acres it covers and 703 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ruhenstroth's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ruhenstroth's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 11 and Oct 11 and the ~153-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 703 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ruhenstroth, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ruhenstroth's boundary and the 1,813 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~153-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ruhenstroth's own centroid, the Central Basin and RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ruhenstroth's 1,813 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 Ruhenstroth's 1,813 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ruhenstroth you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,813 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Ruhenstroth-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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