Beryl Junction, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Beryl Junction, 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 Beryl Junction lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beryl Junction — the short answer
Beryl Junction, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 141 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~141
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Beryl Junction's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beryl Junction's 141-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beryl Junction
Each reading below is measured for Beryl Junction itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeryl Junction runs about 141 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
MeasuredBeryl Junction 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 Beryl Junction is in
Beryl Junction sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Beryl Junction's own centroid rather than borrowed from Iron County.
What Grows in Beryl Junction
Every plant below cleared Beryl Junction's own zone 5b and its 141-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beryl Junction?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 2 — 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 Beryl Junction
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beryl Junction. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- UDOT # 523Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- (C-36-16) 5L 1- 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- (C-35-16)33ccb- 2Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- (C-35-16)32ddc- 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- (C-36-16) 4L15- 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- STOTZ EQUIPMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- (C-35-16)32dcd- 2Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- IRON COUNTY ROAD SHEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- ESCALANTE VALLEY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- ANZALONE DRILLINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- (C-35-16)29ddd- 1Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- HARKER & SONS LLCCAFO · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beryl Junction'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 Beryl Junction.
Total Sites
136
within ~10 miles of Beryl Junction
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beryl Junction
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beryl Junction
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beryl Junction, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Beryl Junction — Mining (34 sites) and CAFO (5 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Beryl Junction
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Your land is one point inside Beryl Junction
Everything above resolves to Beryl Junction as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Beryl Junction Average
Beryl Junction Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Beryl Junction
- ●One soil character for all of Beryl Junction
- ●Frost dates read at Beryl Junction's scale: May 14 to Oct 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beryl Junction's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beryl Junction
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beryl Junction, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beryl Junction averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beryl Junction — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beryl Junction average
How we know this about Beryl Junction
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 Beryl Junction’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 Beryl Junction
When does frost risk typically end in Beryl Junction?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beryl Junction typically lands around May 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Beryl Junction?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beryl Junction typically arrives around Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 18, so the watching starts about Sep 2 — about 141 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beryl Junction?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beryl Junction sees about 141 frost-free days — roughly May 14 through Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 4 to Sep 18, about 106 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beryl Junction?
The federal record around Beryl Junction is a meaningful one — 136 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (76), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Beryl Junction?
With about 141 frost-free days between hard freezes, Beryl Junction 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 169 to 197 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 14 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Beryl Junction's scale — its 5b band and its 141-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beryl Junction'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 Beryl Junction’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Beryl Junction's own scale — its own ~141-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,169 acres it covers and 136 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beryl Junction's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beryl Junction's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 14 and Oct 2 and the ~141-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 136 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beryl Junction, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beryl Junction's boundary and the 1,169 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~141-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beryl Junction'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 Beryl Junction's 1,169 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Iron County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Iron 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 Iron County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beryl Junction's 1,169 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beryl Junction you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,169 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Beryl Junction-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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