New Stuyahok, Alaska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, potato, rhubarb, and kale to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Stuyahok, 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 New Stuyahok lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Stuyahok — the short answer
New Stuyahok, Alaska: USDA zone 4a, about 135 days between hard freezes, across 22K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 4a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 13
- Dillingham Census Area normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 25
- Dillingham Census Area normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~135
- Dillingham Census Area normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 22K 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 Dillingham Census Area’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 4a is New Stuyahok's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Stuyahok's 135-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Stuyahok
Each reading below is measured for New Stuyahok itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNew Stuyahok runs about 135 days between hard freezes (read from Dillingham Census Area, the closest normal to New Stuyahok) — 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
MeasuredNew Stuyahok sits in USDA hardiness zone 4a.
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 New Stuyahok
Plants matched to New Stuyahok's USDA zones 4a, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in New Stuyahok?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a season this compact, fast finishers and cold-hardy greens do the late work, and garlic tucked in before the freeze repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near New Stuyahok
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Stuyahok. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SC00804729DBCD1 001Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- SC00804729DBCD2 001Nitrate · 3.1 mi
Measured from New Stuyahok'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 New Stuyahok.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Stuyahok
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in New Stuyahok
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Your land is one point inside New Stuyahok
Everything above resolves to New Stuyahok as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 22K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Dillingham Census Area’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 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 New Stuyahok Average
New Stuyahok Average
- ●USDA Zones 4a, averaged across New Stuyahok
- ●One soil character for all of New Stuyahok
- ●Frost dates read at New Stuyahok's scale: May 13 to Sep 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Stuyahok's 4a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Stuyahok
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Stuyahok, Alaska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Stuyahok averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Stuyahok — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Stuyahok average
How we know this about New Stuyahok
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 Dillingham Census Area’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 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 New Stuyahok
When does frost risk typically end in New Stuyahok?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Stuyahok typically lands around May 13, 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 Jun 3.
When is the first frost in New Stuyahok?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Stuyahok typically arrives around Sep 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 11, so the watching starts about Aug 26 — about 135 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Stuyahok?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Stuyahok sees about 135 frost-free days — roughly May 13 through Sep 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 3 to Sep 11, about 100 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Stuyahok?
The federal record around New Stuyahok is light — 4 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (4), the nearest Nitrate record about 3.1 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 New Stuyahok?
With about 135 frost-free days between hard freezes, New Stuyahok 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 163 to 191 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 13 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at New Stuyahok's scale — its 4a band and its 135-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Stuyahok'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 New Stuyahok’s own scale
3 of the readings below were taken at New Stuyahok's own scale — the 21,579 acres it covers and 4 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Stuyahok's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 4 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Stuyahok, the closest Nitrate record about 3.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Stuyahok's boundary and the 21,579 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — New Stuyahok has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Dillingham Census Area
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Stuyahok's 21,579 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dillingham County
- The candidate plant list — Alaska's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Alaska
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dillingham 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 Dillingham County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Stuyahok's 21,579 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Stuyahok you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 21,579 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 3.1 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 New Stuyahok-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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