Bryce Canyon City, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include okra, cranberry, lavender, and pumpkin — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bryce Canyon City, 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 Bryce Canyon City lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bryce Canyon City — the short answer
Bryce Canyon City, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 118 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~118
- 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 5b is Bryce Canyon City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bryce Canyon City's 118-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bryce Canyon City
Each reading below is measured for Bryce Canyon City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBryce Canyon City runs about 118 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
MeasuredBryce Canyon City 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 Bryce Canyon City is in
Bryce Canyon City sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Bryce Canyon City's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Garfield County is mostly Colorado Plateaus. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bryce Canyon City
Every plant below cleared Bryce Canyon City's own zone 5b and its 118-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bryce Canyon City?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around May 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even here the calendar’s edges hold value: thirty-day greens late in the window, then garlic and a rested bed for spring.
What's on the federal record near Bryce Canyon City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bryce Canyon City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STEED RANCHESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- RUBY'S INN TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BRYCE CANYON SINCLAIR # 206713Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PINK CLIFFS VILLAGE SINCLAIR SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MAYO RICHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- (C-36- 3) 6dba- 1Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- BRYCE CANYON AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- FOSTER'S INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- (C-36- 4)15cbc- 1 formerly (C-36- 4)15cad- 1Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- BRYCE CANYON PINES COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- UTAH PARKS CO. WELL 1Nitrate · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bryce Canyon City'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 Bryce Canyon City.
Total Sites
26
within ~10 miles of Bryce Canyon City
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
6 nitrate monitoring sites
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bryce Canyon City
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bryce Canyon City, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 20 sites within ~10 miles of Bryce Canyon City. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Bryce Canyon City
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 Bryce Canyon City average
Your land is one point inside Bryce Canyon City
Everything above resolves to Bryce Canyon City 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 Bryce Canyon City Average
Bryce Canyon City Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Bryce Canyon City
- ●One soil character for all of Bryce Canyon City
- ●Frost dates read at Bryce Canyon City's scale: May 29 to Sep 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bryce Canyon City's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bryce Canyon City
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bryce Canyon City, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bryce Canyon City averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bryce Canyon City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bryce Canyon City average
How we know this about Bryce Canyon City
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 Bryce Canyon City’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 Bryce Canyon City
When does frost risk typically end in Bryce Canyon City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bryce Canyon City typically lands around May 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Bryce Canyon City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bryce Canyon City typically arrives around Sep 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 10, so the watching starts about Aug 25 — about 118 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bryce Canyon City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bryce Canyon City sees about 118 frost-free days — roughly May 29 through Sep 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 19 to Sep 10, about 83 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bryce Canyon City?
The federal record around Bryce Canyon City is light — 26 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (20), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Bryce Canyon City?
With about 118 frost-free days between hard freezes, Bryce Canyon City 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 146 to 174 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 29 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Bryce Canyon City's scale — its 5b band and its 118-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bryce Canyon City'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 Bryce Canyon City’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bryce Canyon City's own scale — its own ~118-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,146 acres it covers and 26 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bryce Canyon City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bryce Canyon City's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 29 and Sep 24 and the ~118-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 26 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bryce Canyon City, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bryce Canyon City's boundary and the 2,146 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~118-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Bryce Canyon City sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bryce Canyon City's 2,146 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Garfield County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Garfield 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 Garfield County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bryce Canyon City's 2,146 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bryce Canyon City you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,146 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Bryce Canyon City-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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