Verdi, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — 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 Verdi, 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 Verdi 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 Verdi — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Verdi — the short answer
Verdi, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 150 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~150
- 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 7a is Verdi's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Verdi's 150-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Verdi
Each reading below is measured for Verdi itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVerdi runs about 150 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
MeasuredVerdi 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 Verdi is in
Verdi sits in the Sierra Nevada — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Verdi's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Washoe County is mostly Northern Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Verdi
Every plant below cleared Verdi's own zone 7a and its 150-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Verdi?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 13 — 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 Verdi
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Verdi. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Former Gulf Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- BRUCE OLSON CONSTRUCTION INCBrownfields · 450 ft
- DAN GOODRICH EXCAVATIONBrownfields · 450 ft
- Margaret LupinoUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Verdi (Mp: 232 2) - ClosedUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Paul BichelerUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SCHLOSSER FORGE CO-VIKINGToxics Release Inventory · 1400 ft
- Viking Metallurgical CorpUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Wells ManufacturingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Wells Mfg CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WELLS BLOOMFIELD CO REMEDIATIONBrownfields · 1500 ft
- WELLS MANUFACTURING COToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Verdi'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 Verdi.
Total Sites
511
within ~10 miles of Verdi
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Verdi
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Verdi
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Verdi, Mining runs higher than the national average — 30 sites within ~10 miles of Verdi. 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 Verdi
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 Verdi average
Your land is one point inside Verdi
Everything above resolves to Verdi 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 Verdi Average
Verdi Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Verdi
- ●One soil character for all of Verdi
- ●Frost dates read at Verdi's scale: May 16 to Oct 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Verdi's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Verdi
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Verdi, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Verdi averages can't show:
We read public map data around Verdi — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Verdi average
How we know this about Verdi
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 Verdi’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 Verdi
When does frost risk typically end in Verdi?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Verdi typically lands around May 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Verdi?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Verdi typically arrives around Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 29, so the watching starts about Sep 13 — about 150 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Verdi?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Verdi sees about 150 frost-free days — roughly May 16 through Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 6 to Sep 29, about 115 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Verdi?
The federal record around Verdi is a meaningful one — 511 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (302), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Verdi?
From about Sep 13 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Verdi's scale — its 7a band and its 150-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Verdi'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 Verdi’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Verdi's own scale — its own ~150-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,121 acres it covers and 511 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Verdi's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Verdi's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 16 and Oct 13 and the ~150-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 511 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Verdi, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Verdi's boundary and the 2,121 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~150-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Verdi 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 Verdi's 2,121 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washoe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washoe 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 Washoe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Verdi's 2,121 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Verdi you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,121 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Verdi-wide figureread your own land →
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