Yerington, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Yerington, 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 Yerington lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Yerington — the short answer
Yerington, Nevada: USDA zone 7a, about 177 days between hard freezes, across 19K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~177
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 19K 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 Yerington's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Yerington's 177-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Yerington
Each reading below is measured for Yerington itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredYerington runs about 177 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
MeasuredYerington 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 Yerington is in
Yerington sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Yerington's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lyon County.
What Grows in Yerington
Every plant below cleared Yerington's own zone 7a and its 177-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Yerington?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Yerington
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Yerington. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PUMPKIN HOLLOW PROJECTToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- PUMPKIN HOLLOW PROJECTBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- Copper Ridge MineMining · 1.9 mi
- Black Rock ProspectMining · 1.9 mi
- Frade Ranch IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- Blue Jay MineMining · 2.2 mi
- Nw Section 21 ProspectsMining · 2.2 mi
- Bookman Copper ProspectMining · 2.3 mi
- Black Rock MineMining · 2.4 mi
- East Section 21 ProspectsMining · 2.4 mi
- Bradley ProspectMining · 2.8 mi
- Bradley MineMining · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Yerington'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 Yerington.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Yerington
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Yerington
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Yerington, Mining runs higher than the national average — 98 sites within ~10 miles of Yerington. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Yerington
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 Yerington average
Your land is one point inside Yerington
Everything above resolves to Yerington as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 19K 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 city 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 Yerington Average
Yerington Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Yerington
- ●One soil character for all of Yerington
- ●Frost dates read at Yerington's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Yerington's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Yerington
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We read public map data around Yerington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Yerington average
How we know this about Yerington
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Yerington’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Yerington
When does frost risk typically end in Yerington?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Yerington typically lands around Apr 24, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Yerington?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Yerington typically arrives around Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 4, so the watching starts about Sep 18 — about 177 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Yerington?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Yerington sees about 177 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 4, about 142 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Yerington?
The federal record around Yerington is a meaningful one — 156 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (98), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.7 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 I protect my plants from frost in Yerington?
From about Sep 18 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Yerington's scale — its 7a band and its 177-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Yerington'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 Yerington’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Yerington's own scale — its own ~177-day season between 28°F freezes, the 18,877 acres it covers and 156 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Yerington's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Yerington's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 18 and the ~177-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 156 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Yerington, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Yerington's boundary and the 18,877 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~177-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Yerington'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 Yerington's 18,877 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 Yerington's 18,877 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Yerington you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 18,877 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.7 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 Yerington-wide figureread your own land →