Farragut, Iowa, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Farragut, 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 Farragut lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Farragut — the short answer
Farragut, Iowa: USDA zone 5b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 257 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 257 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 5b is Farragut's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Farragut's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Farragut
Each reading below is measured for Farragut itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFarragut runs about 202 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredFarragut sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Farragut is in
Farragut sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Farragut's own centroid rather than borrowed from Fremont County.
What Grows in Farragut
Every plant below cleared Farragut's own zone 5b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Iowa profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Farragut?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Farragut
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Farragut. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FORMER H&H TOWN AND COUNTRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- FARRAGUT OIL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- Not KnownUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- FARRAGUT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 950 ft
- FARRAGUT COMMUNITY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- 068N40W07BCAA 39766 1980Farragut 79-2 NorthNitrate · 1500 ft
- EATON CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- 069N40W12DDDD 00536 1937Shenandoah 12Nitrate · 4.7 mi
- 069N40W24AABA 42419 1946Shenandoah 12Nitrate · 4.7 mi
- 069N41W12DDD 1948Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- EARL MAY SEED & NURSERY LPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- SHENANDOAH AVIATION INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Farragut'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 Farragut.
Total Sites
122
within ~10 miles of Farragut
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Farragut
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Farragut
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Farragut, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Farragut. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Farragut
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 Farragut average
Your land is one point inside Farragut
Everything above resolves to Farragut as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 257 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 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 Farragut Average
Farragut Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Farragut
- ●One soil character for all of Farragut
- ●Frost dates read at Farragut's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Farragut's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Farragut
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Farragut, Iowa — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Farragut averages can't show:
We read public map data around Farragut — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Farragut average
How we know this about Farragut
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 Farragut’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 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 Farragut
When does frost risk typically end in Farragut?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Farragut typically lands around Apr 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 Apr 27.
When is the first frost in Farragut?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Farragut typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Farragut?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Farragut sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 11, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Farragut?
The federal record around Farragut is a meaningful one — 122 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Farragut?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Farragut's scale — its 5b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Farragut'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 Farragut’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Farragut's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 257 acres it covers and 122 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Farragut's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Farragut's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 25 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 122 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Farragut, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Farragut's boundary and the 257 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Farragut's own centroid, the Western Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Farragut's 257 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fremont County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fremont County
- The growing challenges every Iowa grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Iowa
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Fremont County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Farragut's 257 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Farragut you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 257 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Farragut-wide figureread your own land →
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