Butte County
County
Heat class IV · 1991-2020 normals
Climate normals in three numbers
, Apr 1 – Oct 31
317 GridMET cells cover this region
season rain, Apr 1 – Oct 31
68 mm of it in the , Sep 1 – Oct 31
Warm and cool vintages since 1980
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Rain across the season, and at harvest
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The boundary
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Measured vineyard area
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Drought categories, year by year
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What's in the ground
6.4
pH, 1:1 water
15.8cm
, whole profile
126cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 578 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 5.8%
- 4.4%
- 4.3%
- 3.9%
- 3.6%
578 map units · soil described over 96.9% of the region’s area · 7.3% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 77% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Sand, silt and clay, against every other appellation
Loam
42% sand · 33% silt · 25% clay
Sandier than 51% of California appellations and clayier than 77%. Each grey point is one appellation’s topsoil; appellations nest, so this is a distribution of places rather than of land.
Plus 16% rock fragments by volume, which the triangle does not describe — the three fractions are of the fine-earth material only.
Elevation, slope and aspect
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Bearing acreage by variety
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Price per ton
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