Tyhee, Idaho, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Tyhee, 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 Tyhee 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 Tyhee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tyhee — the short answer
Tyhee, Idaho: USDA zone 6a, about 160 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~160
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 6a is Tyhee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tyhee's 160-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tyhee
Each reading below is measured for Tyhee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTyhee runs about 160 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTyhee sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Tyhee is in
Tyhee sits in the Snake River Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Tyhee's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Bannock County is mostly Northern Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Tyhee
Every plant below cleared Tyhee's own zone 6a and its 160-day season. Each card opens that plant's Idaho profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tyhee?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Tyhee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tyhee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 05S 34E 26CDC1Nitrate · 1800 ft
- LIDDIL PAVINGBrownfields · 2500 ft
- TYHEE COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Toad's Store & Ale HouseUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 05S 34E 35ABB1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- 05S 34E 34BAA1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- 05S 34E 26DBD1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- INTERMOUNTAIN GAS COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- NORTHWEST PIPELINE CORP POCATELLO DIST OFFICEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- SAFETY KLEEN SYSTEMSBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- STEEL WEST INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 1.2 mi
- 05S 34E 33DAA1Nitrate · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tyhee'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 Tyhee.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tyhee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tyhee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tyhee, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 11 sites within ~10 miles of Tyhee. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Tyhee
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tyhee average
Your land is one point inside Tyhee
Everything above resolves to Tyhee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Tyhee Average
Tyhee Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Tyhee
- ●One soil character for all of Tyhee
- ●Frost dates read at Tyhee's scale: May 1 to Oct 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tyhee's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tyhee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tyhee, Idaho — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tyhee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tyhee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tyhee average
How we know this about Tyhee
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 Tyhee’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 Tyhee
When does frost risk typically end in Tyhee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tyhee typically lands around May 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Tyhee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tyhee typically arrives around Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 24, so the watching starts about Sep 8 — about 160 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tyhee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tyhee sees about 160 frost-free days — roughly May 1 through Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 22 to Sep 24, about 125 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tyhee?
The federal record around Tyhee runs heavier than most — 485 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (251), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Tyhee?
From about Sep 8 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 Oct 8 (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 Oct 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tyhee's scale — its 6a band and its 160-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tyhee'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 Tyhee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Tyhee's own scale — its own ~160-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,837 acres it covers and 485 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tyhee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tyhee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 1 and Oct 8 and the ~160-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 485 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tyhee, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tyhee's boundary and the 1,837 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~160-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Tyhee sits in the Snake River Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tyhee's 1,837 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bannock County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bannock County
- The growing challenges every Idaho grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Idaho
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Bannock County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tyhee's 1,837 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tyhee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,837 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Tyhee-wide figureread your own land →