Silver Peak, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Silver Peak, 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 Silver Peak 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 Silver Peak — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Silver Peak — the short answer
Silver Peak, Nevada: USDA zone 7b, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 634 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 634 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 7b is Silver Peak's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Silver Peak's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Silver Peak
Each reading below is measured for Silver Peak itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSilver Peak runs about 206 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredSilver Peak sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Silver Peak is in
Silver Peak sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Silver Peak's own centroid rather than borrowed from Esmeralda County.
What Grows in Silver Peak
Every plant below cleared Silver Peak's own zone 7b and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Silver Peak?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Silver Peak
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Silver Peak. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Mary Drink-Water MineUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Cyprus Foote Mineral CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Coaldale JunctionUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MINERAL RIDGE MINEBrownfields · 1800 ft
- MINERAL RIDGE MINEToxics Release Inventory · 1800 ft
- Gold HillMining · 1.0 mi
- Shirley PropertyMining · 1.3 mi
- Vanderbilt MineMining · 1.4 mi
- ROCKWOOD LITHIUM INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- Pocatello MineMining · 1.6 mi
- Gold Ledge Claim GroupMining · 1.8 mi
- Shipper GroupMining · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Silver Peak'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 Silver Peak.
Total Sites
51
within ~10 miles of Silver Peak
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Silver Peak
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Silver Peak
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Silver Peak, Mining runs higher than the national average — 43 sites within ~10 miles of Silver Peak. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Silver Peak
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 Silver Peak average
Your land is one point inside Silver Peak
Everything above resolves to Silver Peak as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 634 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 Silver Peak Average
Silver Peak Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Silver Peak
- ●One soil character for all of Silver Peak
- ●Frost dates read at Silver Peak's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Silver Peak's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Silver Peak
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Silver Peak, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Silver Peak averages can't show:
We read public map data around Silver Peak — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Silver Peak average
How we know this about Silver Peak
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 Silver Peak’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 Silver Peak
When does frost risk typically end in Silver Peak?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Silver Peak typically lands around Apr 6, 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 Apr 27.
When is the first frost in Silver Peak?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Silver Peak typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Silver Peak?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Silver Peak sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 15, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Silver Peak?
The federal record around Silver Peak runs heavier than most — 51 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (43), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Silver Peak?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Silver Peak's scale — its 7b band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Silver Peak'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 Silver Peak’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Silver Peak's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 634 acres it covers and 51 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Silver Peak's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Silver Peak's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 29 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 51 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Silver Peak, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Silver Peak's boundary and the 634 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Silver Peak'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 Silver Peak's 634 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Esmeralda County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Esmeralda 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 Esmeralda County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Silver Peak's 634 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Silver Peak you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 634 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Silver Peak-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across NevadaSilver Peak sits outside our named growing regions, so Nevada as a whole is its closest context here.