Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, cilantro, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Eureka Roadhouse, 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 Eureka Roadhouse lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eureka Roadhouse — the short answer
Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska: USDA zone 4b, about 145 days between hard freezes, across 119K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 6
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 28
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~145
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 119K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 4b is Eureka Roadhouse's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eureka Roadhouse's 145-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eureka Roadhouse
Each reading below is measured for Eureka Roadhouse itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsEureka Roadhouse runs about 145 days between hard freezes (read from Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the closest normal to Eureka Roadhouse) — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEureka Roadhouse sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
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
What Grows in Eureka Roadhouse
Every plant below cleared Eureka Roadhouse's own zone 4b and its 145-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alaska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eureka Roadhouse?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Short seasons reward decisiveness — quick-maturing varieties late, hardy greens under cover, and next year’s garlic in the ground before it closes.
What's on the federal record near Eureka Roadhouse
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eureka Roadhouse. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AT&T - Sawmill Microwave RepeaterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Salted WonderMining · 8.6 mi
Measured from Eureka Roadhouse'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 Eureka Roadhouse.
Total Sites
2
within ~10 miles of Eureka Roadhouse
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 mining site (prospects, none worked)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eureka Roadhouse
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Eureka Roadhouse
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Your land is one point inside Eureka Roadhouse
Everything above resolves to Eureka Roadhouse as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 119K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Eureka Roadhouse Average
Eureka Roadhouse Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Eureka Roadhouse
- ●One soil character for all of Eureka Roadhouse
- ●Frost dates read at Eureka Roadhouse's scale: May 6 to Sep 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eureka Roadhouse's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eureka Roadhouse
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eureka Roadhouse averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eureka Roadhouse — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eureka Roadhouse average
How we know this about Eureka Roadhouse
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 Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Eureka Roadhouse
When does frost risk typically end in Eureka Roadhouse?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eureka Roadhouse typically lands around May 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 May 27.
When is the first frost in Eureka Roadhouse?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eureka Roadhouse typically arrives around Sep 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 14, so the watching starts about Aug 29 — about 145 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eureka Roadhouse?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eureka Roadhouse sees about 145 frost-free days — roughly May 6 through Sep 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 27 to Sep 14, about 110 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eureka Roadhouse?
The federal record around Eureka Roadhouse is light — 2 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Mining entries (1), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Eureka Roadhouse?
With about 145 frost-free days between hard freezes, Eureka Roadhouse rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 173 to 201 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 6 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Eureka Roadhouse's scale — its 4b band and its 145-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eureka Roadhouse'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 Eureka Roadhouse’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Eureka Roadhouse's own scale — the 118,899 acres it covers and 2 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eureka Roadhouse's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 2 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eureka Roadhouse, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eureka Roadhouse's boundary and the 118,899 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~145-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Eureka Roadhouse has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eureka Roadhouse's 118,899 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Matanuska-Susitna County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Matanuska-Susitna County
- The growing challenges every Alaska grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Alaska
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Matanuska-Susitna County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eureka Roadhouse's 118,899 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eureka Roadhouse you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 118,899 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 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 Eureka Roadhouse-wide figureread your own land →
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