Stagecoach, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Stagecoach, 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 Stagecoach lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stagecoach — the short answer
Stagecoach, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 182 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~182
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Stagecoach's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stagecoach's 182-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stagecoach
Each reading below is measured for Stagecoach itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStagecoach runs about 182 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
MeasuredStagecoach 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 Stagecoach is in
Stagecoach sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Stagecoach's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lyon County.
What Grows in Stagecoach
Every plant below cleared Stagecoach's own zone 7a and its 182-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stagecoach?
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 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Stagecoach
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stagecoach. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 103 N17 E23 02BC 1 Stagecoach Utilities 5Nitrate · 2300 ft
- Stagecoach MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- 103 N17 E23 02BDCC1 COACHNitrate · 0.5 mi
- 103 N17 E23 02ACBC1 JJNitrate · 0.8 mi
- 103 N17 E23 11BCCD1Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- 103 N17 E23 10BCCA1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- 103 N18 E23 35DCDC1 Stagecoach Utilities 4Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 103 N17 E23 04CBBB2Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 103 N17 E23 17DCBC1Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- Old Soldier MineMining · 3.3 mi
- Stagecoach Volunteer Fire DeptUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Blackhawk MineMining · 4.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stagecoach'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 Stagecoach.
Total Sites
102
within ~10 miles of Stagecoach
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stagecoach
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stagecoach
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stagecoach, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Stagecoach — Nitrate (60 sites) and Mining (7 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
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 well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Stagecoach
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Stagecoach
Everything above resolves to Stagecoach as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Stagecoach Average
Stagecoach Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Stagecoach
- ●One soil character for all of Stagecoach
- ●Frost dates read at Stagecoach's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stagecoach's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stagecoach
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stagecoach, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stagecoach averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stagecoach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Stagecoach average
How we know this about Stagecoach
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 Stagecoach’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 Stagecoach
When does frost risk typically end in Stagecoach?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stagecoach typically lands around Apr 20, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Stagecoach?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stagecoach typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 182 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stagecoach?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stagecoach sees about 182 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 5, about 147 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stagecoach?
The federal record around Stagecoach shows 102 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (60), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Stagecoach?
From about Sep 19 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stagecoach's scale — its 7a band and its 182-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stagecoach'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 Stagecoach’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Stagecoach's own scale — its own ~182-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,341 acres it covers and 102 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stagecoach's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stagecoach's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 19 and the ~182-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 102 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stagecoach, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stagecoach's boundary and the 5,341 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~182-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stagecoach'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 Stagecoach's 5,341 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lyon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lyon 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 Lyon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stagecoach's 5,341 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stagecoach you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,341 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Stagecoach-wide figureread your own land →
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