Logan, Montana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, cilantro, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Logan, 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 Logan lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Logan — the short answer
Logan, Montana: USDA zone 4b, about 147 days between hard freezes, across 319 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~147
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 319 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 4b is Logan's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Logan's 147-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Logan
Each reading below is measured for Logan itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLogan runs about 147 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredLogan 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
The kind of country Logan is in
Logan sits in the Middle Rockies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Logan's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gallatin County.
What Grows in Logan
Every plant below cleared Logan's own zone 4b and its 147-day season. Each card opens that plant's Montana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Logan?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. When the window is tight, the fall moves are quick ones — baby greens, radishes, and garlic set for next season.
What's on the federal record near Logan
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Logan. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LOGAN USTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- GALLATIN COUNTY LOGAN LANDFILLBrownfields · 2000 ft
- FRANK RUNDLETTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- 01N02E10DBAB01Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- 01N03E07CDDA01Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- 02N02E28CADC01Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 02N02E28CADC04Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 02N02E28CADC02Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 02N02E28CADC03Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 01N02E04DCCC01Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- 02N02E28CBDD01Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- 02N02E21ACDB01Nitrate · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Logan'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 Logan.
Total Sites
201
within ~10 miles of Logan
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Logan
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Logan
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Logan, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Logan — Nitrate (136 sites) and CAFO (4 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Logan
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 Logan average
Your land is one point inside Logan
Everything above resolves to Logan as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 319 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 Logan Average
Logan Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Logan
- ●One soil character for all of Logan
- ●Frost dates read at Logan's scale: May 7 to Oct 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Logan's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Logan
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Logan, Montana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Logan averages can't show:
We read public map data around Logan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Logan average
How we know this about Logan
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 Logan’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 Logan
When does frost risk typically end in Logan?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Logan typically lands around May 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Logan?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Logan typically arrives around Oct 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 17, so the watching starts about Sep 1 — about 147 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Logan?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Logan sees about 147 frost-free days — roughly May 7 through Oct 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 28 to Sep 17, about 112 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Logan?
The federal record around Logan is a meaningful one — 201 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (136), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 gardeners stretch the season in Logan?
With about 147 frost-free days between hard freezes, Logan 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 175 to 203 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 7 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Logan's scale — its 4b band and its 147-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Logan'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 Logan’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Logan's own scale — its own ~147-day season between 28°F freezes, the 319 acres it covers and 201 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Logan's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Logan's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 7 and Oct 1 and the ~147-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 201 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Logan, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Logan's boundary and the 319 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~147-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Logan's own centroid, the Middle RockiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Logan's 319 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gallatin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gallatin County
- The growing challenges every Montana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Montana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Gallatin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Logan's 319 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Logan you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 319 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Logan-wide figureread your own land →