Stateline, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Stateline, 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 Stateline 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 Stateline — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Stateline — the short answer
Stateline, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 127 days between hard freezes, across 460 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~127
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 460 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 Stateline's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stateline's 127-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stateline
Each reading below is measured for Stateline itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStateline runs about 127 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
MeasuredStateline 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 Stateline is in
Stateline sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Stateline'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 Stateline
Every plant below cleared Stateline's own zone 7a and its 127-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stateline?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Short seasons reward decisiveness — quick-maturing varieties late, hardy greens under cover, and next year’s garlic in the ground before it closes.
What's on the federal record near Stateline
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stateline. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 090 N13 E18 22CDD 2 Edgewood Well 3-2Nitrate · 600 ft
- 090 N13 E18 22CDD 1 Edgewood Well 3-1Nitrate · 600 ft
- 090 N13 E18 22DCA 1 Edgewood Well 4Nitrate · 1000 ft
- 090 N13 E18 27BAC 1 Edgewood Well 2Nitrate · 1600 ft
- Lake Park ApartmentsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- 090 N13 E18 27BDA 1 Edgewood Well 1Nitrate · 2000 ft
- LAKESIDE INN AND CASINOBrownfields · 2300 ft
- Douglas County SheriffUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Beach Pump StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Edgewood Tahoe Golf CourseUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Harrahs Lake TahoeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Douglas Co Senior Cent-Lake TahoeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stateline'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 Stateline.
Total Sites
725
within ~10 miles of Stateline
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stateline
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stateline
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stateline, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 402 sites within ~10 miles of Stateline. 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 Stateline
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 Stateline average
Your land is one point inside Stateline
Everything above resolves to Stateline as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 460 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 Stateline Average
Stateline Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Stateline
- ●One soil character for all of Stateline
- ●Frost dates read at Stateline's scale: May 27 to Oct 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stateline's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stateline
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stateline, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stateline averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stateline — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Stateline average
How we know this about Stateline
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 Stateline’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 Stateline
When does frost risk typically end in Stateline?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stateline typically lands around May 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Stateline?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stateline typically arrives around Oct 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 17, so the watching starts about Sep 1 — about 127 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stateline?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stateline sees about 127 frost-free days — roughly May 27 through Oct 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 17 to Sep 17, about 92 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stateline?
The federal record around Stateline is a meaningful one — 725 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (402), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.1 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 Stateline?
With about 127 frost-free days between hard freezes, Stateline 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 155 to 183 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 27 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Stateline's scale — its 7a band and its 127-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stateline'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 Stateline’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Stateline's own scale — its own ~127-day season between 28°F freezes, the 460 acres it covers and 725 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stateline's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stateline's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 27 and Oct 1 and the ~127-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 725 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stateline, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stateline's boundary and the 460 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~127-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Stateline 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 Stateline's 460 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 Stateline's 460 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stateline you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 460 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 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 Stateline-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across NevadaStateline sits outside our named growing regions, so Nevada as a whole is its closest context here.
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