Neilton, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Neilton, 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 Neilton 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 Neilton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Neilton — the short answer
Neilton, Washington: USDA zone 8b, about 262 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~262
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 8b is Neilton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Neilton's 262-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Neilton
Each reading below is measured for Neilton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNeilton runs about 262 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
MeasuredNeilton sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Neilton is in
Neilton sits in the Coast Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Neilton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Grays Harbor County.
What Grows in Neilton
Every plant below cleared Neilton's own zone 8b and its 262-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Neilton?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Neilton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Neilton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JON J MCDONALDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- NEILTON SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 23N/09W-19N01Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- QUINAULT GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- USDA FS OLYMPIC NF: QUINAULT OFFICE PACIFIC RANGER DISTR-SOUTHSuperfund · 4.7 mi
- QUINAULT RANGER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- LAKE QUINAULT LODGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- AMANDA PARK CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- 21N/09W-02L01Nitrate · 6.2 mi
- SATSOP WORK CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
- LAKE SYLVIA STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.7 mi
- PETERSON SHAKE CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.5 mi
Measured from Neilton'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 Neilton.
Total Sites
14
within ~10 miles of Neilton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Neilton
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •A Superfund listing means federally documented contamination. Test soil and water before planting edibles nearby.
Check your specific parcel in Neilton
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 Neilton
Everything above resolves to Neilton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 Neilton Average
Neilton Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Neilton
- ●One soil character for all of Neilton
- ●Frost dates read at Neilton's scale: Mar 6 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Neilton's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Neilton
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We read public map data around Neilton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Neilton average
How we know this about Neilton
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 Neilton’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 Neilton
When does frost risk typically end in Neilton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Neilton typically lands around Mar 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Neilton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Neilton typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 262 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Neilton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Neilton sees about 262 frost-free days — roughly Mar 6 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 27 to Nov 9, about 227 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Neilton?
The federal record around Neilton is a meaningful one — 14 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (9), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Neilton?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Neilton's scale — its 8b band and its 262-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Neilton'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 Neilton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Neilton's own scale — its own ~262-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,188 acres it covers and 14 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Neilton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Neilton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 6 and Nov 23 and the ~262-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 14 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Neilton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Neilton's boundary and the 6,188 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~262-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Neilton's own centroid, the Coast RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Neilton's 6,188 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grays Harbor County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grays Harbor 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 Grays Harbor County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Neilton's 6,188 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Neilton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,188 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Neilton-wide figureread your own land →