Clear Creek, 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.
The conditions favor okra, blackberry, lavender, and pumpkin, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Clear Creek, 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 Clear Creek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Clear Creek — the short answer
Clear Creek, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 113 days between hard freezes, across 131 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jun 3
- 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
- ~113
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 131 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 Clear Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Clear Creek's 113-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Clear Creek
Each reading below is measured for Clear Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredClear Creek runs about 113 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
MeasuredClear Creek 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 Clear Creek is in
Clear Creek sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Clear Creek's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Carbon County is mostly Colorado Plateaus. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Clear Creek
Every plant below cleared Clear Creek's own zone 5b and its 113-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Clear Creek?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around May 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jun 3 (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. 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 Clear Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Clear Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JACK OTANI ( C.C.C.C. , INC.)Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BELINA & UTAH NO. 2 MINESUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- CANYON FUEL COMPANY/FORMER UTAH FUELBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- VALLEY CAMP LOAD OUT FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- UTAH FUEL COMPANY - SKYLINE MINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- CLEAR CREEK CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- GOOSE'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- BELINA SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- UDOT # 4460AUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- STUART GUARD STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- MAMMOTH GUARD STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.8 mi
- UDOT STA. #334Underground Storage Tanks · 8.9 mi
Measured from Clear Creek'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 Clear Creek.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Clear Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Clear Creek
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 Clear Creek average
Your land is one point inside Clear Creek
Everything above resolves to Clear Creek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 131 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 Clear Creek Average
Clear Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Clear Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Clear Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Clear Creek's scale: Jun 3 to Sep 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Clear Creek's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Clear Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Clear Creek, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Clear Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Clear Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Clear Creek average
How we know this about Clear Creek
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 Clear Creek’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 Clear Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Clear Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Clear Creek typically lands around Jun 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Clear Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Clear Creek 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 113 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Clear Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Clear Creek sees about 113 frost-free days — roughly Jun 3 through Sep 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 24 to Sep 10, about 78 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Clear Creek?
The federal record around Clear Creek is light — 12 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (11), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Clear Creek?
With about 113 frost-free days between hard freezes, Clear Creek 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 141 to 169 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the Jun 3 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Clear Creek's scale — its 5b band and its 113-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Clear Creek'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 Clear Creek’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Clear Creek's own scale — its own ~113-day season between 28°F freezes, the 131 acres it covers and 12 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Clear Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Clear Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Jun 3 and Sep 24 and the ~113-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 12 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Clear Creek, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Clear Creek's boundary and the 131 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~113-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Clear Creek 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 Clear Creek's 131 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carbon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carbon 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 Carbon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Clear Creek's 131 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Clear Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 131 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 Clear Creek-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across UtahClear Creek sits outside our named growing regions, so Utah as a whole is its closest context here.
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