Granger, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Granger, 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 Granger 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 Granger — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Granger — the short answer
Granger, Washington: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Granger's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Granger's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Granger
Each reading below is measured for Granger itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGranger runs about 221 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredGranger 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 Granger is in
Granger sits in the Columbia Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Granger's own centroid rather than borrowed from Yakima County.
What Grows in Granger
Every plant below cleared Granger's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Granger?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Granger
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Granger. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GRANGER FAMILY MEDICINE CLINICBrownfields · 800 ft
- VILLAGE MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- YAKIMA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 204Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- BLEYHL FARM SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- BLEYHL FARM SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- COOL MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- IGLESIA DE DIOS VIVO DE GRANGERToxics Release Inventory · 1300 ft
- RUEHL & ARSTEIN INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- 10N/21E-21H01Nitrate · 1500 ft
- MEZAS SERVICE STATION & GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- C & D MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- YAKIMA BAIT COMPANY WORDENS LUREBrownfields · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Granger'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 Granger.
Total Sites
610
within ~10 miles of Granger
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Granger
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Granger
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Granger, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Granger — CAFO (19 sites) and Nitrate (438 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Granger
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 Granger
Everything above resolves to Granger as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Granger Average
Granger Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Granger
- ●One soil character for all of Granger
- ●Frost dates read at Granger's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Granger's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Granger
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Granger, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Granger averages can't show:
We read public map data around Granger — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Granger average
How we know this about Granger
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 Granger’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 Granger
When does frost risk typically end in Granger?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Granger typically lands around Mar 26, 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 Apr 16.
When is the first frost in Granger?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Granger typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Granger?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Granger sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 19, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Granger?
The federal record around Granger is a meaningful one — 610 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (438), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Granger?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Granger's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Granger'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 Granger’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Granger's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,106 acres it covers and 610 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Granger's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Granger's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 2 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 610 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Granger, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Granger's boundary and the 1,106 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Granger's own centroid, the Columbia PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Granger's 1,106 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Yakima County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Yakima 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 Yakima County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Granger's 1,106 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Granger you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,106 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Granger-wide figureread your own land →