Everson, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Everson, 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 Everson lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Everson — the short answer
Everson, Washington: USDA zone 8a, about 263 days between hard freezes, across 956 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~263
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 956 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 8a is Everson's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Everson's 263-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Everson
Each reading below is measured for Everson itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEverson runs about 263 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEverson sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Everson is in
Everson sits in the Puget Lowland — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Everson's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Whatcom County is mostly North Cascades. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Everson
Every plant below cleared Everson's own zone 8a and its 263-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Everson?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Everson
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Everson. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 40N/03E-36Q01Nitrate · 1900 ft
- JOHN N FULLERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WA DOT EVERSON AUTO BODYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- NW TRANSFORMER HARKNESSSuperfund · 0.7 mi
- EVERSON CENTRAL OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BAILEYS TIRESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- NORTH CITY SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 39N/03E-01C01Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- TWIN VIEW DAIRYCAFO · 0.8 mi
- MIKE HOEFER FARMCAFO · 0.9 mi
- 40N/04E-31R02Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- SELCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Everson'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 Everson.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Everson
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Everson
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Everson, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Everson — CAFO (85 sites) and Nitrate (512 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Everson
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Your land is one point inside Everson
Everything above resolves to Everson as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 956 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 Everson Average
Everson Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Everson
- ●One soil character for all of Everson
- ●Frost dates read at Everson's scale: Mar 1 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Everson's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Everson
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Everson, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Everson — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Everson
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 Everson’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 Everson
When does frost risk typically end in Everson?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Everson typically lands around Mar 1, 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 Mar 22.
When is the first frost in Everson?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Everson typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 263 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Everson?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Everson sees about 263 frost-free days — roughly Mar 1 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 22 to Nov 5, about 228 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Everson?
The federal record around Everson is a meaningful one — 808 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (512), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Everson?
From about Oct 20 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 Nov 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 Nov 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Everson's scale — its 8a band and its 263-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Everson'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 Everson’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Everson's own scale — its own ~263-day season between 28°F freezes, the 956 acres it covers and 808 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Everson's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Everson's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 1 and Nov 19 and the ~263-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 808 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Everson, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Everson's boundary and the 956 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~263-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Everson sits in the Puget Lowland — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Everson's 956 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Whatcom County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Whatcom County
- The growing challenges every Washington grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Washington
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Whatcom County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Everson's 956 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Everson you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 956 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 Everson-wide figureread your own land →
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