Beaver, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Beaver, 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 Beaver lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beaver — the short answer
Beaver, Utah: USDA zone 6a, about 145 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~145
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Beaver's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beaver's 145-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beaver
Each reading below is measured for Beaver itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeaver runs about 145 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
MeasuredBeaver 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 Beaver is in
Beaver sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Beaver's own centroid rather than borrowed from Beaver County.
What Grows in Beaver
Every plant below cleared Beaver's own zone 6a and its 145-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beaver?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 4 — 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 Beaver
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beaver. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WILSON AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- PUG'S DRIVE INNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- CHEVRON USA INC 72977 LELAND R. BLACKBrownfields · 1100 ft
- ENEL COVE FORT, LLCBrownfields · 1100 ft
- ROBERT'S DAIRYCAFO · 1100 ft
- CANYON SINCLAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BEAVER CITY CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- MOBIL OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- UTAH ARNG BEAVER ARMORY/FMSBrownfields · 1500 ft
- ELLEN PHOTO & VIDEOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- OMS 10 - BEAVERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- TERRY MOTOR CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beaver'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 Beaver.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beaver
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beaver
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beaver, Mining runs higher than the national average — 9 sites within ~10 miles of Beaver. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Beaver
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 Beaver average
Your land is one point inside Beaver
Everything above resolves to Beaver as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Beaver Average
Beaver Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Beaver
- ●One soil character for all of Beaver
- ●Frost dates read at Beaver's scale: May 12 to Oct 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beaver's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beaver
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beaver, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beaver averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beaver — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beaver average
How we know this about Beaver
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 Beaver’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 Beaver
When does frost risk typically end in Beaver?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beaver typically lands around May 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Beaver?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beaver typically arrives around Oct 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 20, so the watching starts about Sep 4 — about 145 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beaver?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beaver sees about 145 frost-free days — roughly May 12 through Oct 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 2 to Sep 20, about 110 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beaver?
The federal record around Beaver is a meaningful one — 57 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Beaver?
With about 145 frost-free days between hard freezes, Beaver 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 12 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Beaver's scale — its 6a band and its 145-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beaver'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 Beaver’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Beaver's own scale — its own ~145-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,310 acres it covers and 57 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beaver's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beaver's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 12 and Oct 4 and the ~145-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 57 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beaver, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beaver's boundary and the 4,310 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~145-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beaver's own centroid, the Central Basin and RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beaver's 4,310 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Beaver County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Beaver County
- The growing challenges every Utah grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Utah
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Beaver County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beaver's 4,310 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beaver you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,310 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Beaver-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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