Daniel, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Daniel, 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 Daniel lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Daniel — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Daniel — the short answer
Daniel, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 158 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~158
- 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 Daniel's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Daniel's 158-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Daniel
Each reading below is measured for Daniel itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDaniel runs about 158 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredDaniel 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 Daniel is in
Daniel sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Daniel's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wasatch County.
What Grows in Daniel
Every plant below cleared Daniel's own zone 5b and its 158-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Daniel?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Daniel
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Daniel, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Daniel
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Daniel. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GOLDEN WEST LIVESTOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- (D- 4- 5)17bcb- 2Nitrate · 2600 ft
- (D- 4- 5)17dda- 1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- WEBB TAP FROM WELL SOURCENitrate · 1.0 mi
- (D- 4- 5)16bca- 1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- (D- 4- 5) 7daa- 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- (D- 4- 5)18ccc- 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- (D- 4- 4)13ada- 1Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- WASATCH AERO SERVICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- DOUG WAGSTAFF WELL (142 FEET DEEP)Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- COTTAGE MKT & GOODIES INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- HEBER AIRPORT WELL (155 FEET DEEP)Nitrate · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Daniel'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 Daniel.
Total Sites
219
within ~10 miles of Daniel
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Daniel
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Daniel
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Daniel, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 148 sites within ~10 miles of Daniel. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Daniel
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Daniel
Everything above resolves to Daniel 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 Daniel Average
Daniel Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Daniel
- ●One soil character for all of Daniel
- ●Frost dates read at Daniel's scale: May 6 to Oct 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Daniel's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Daniel
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Daniel, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Daniel — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Daniel average
How we know this about Daniel
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 Daniel’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 Daniel
When does frost risk typically end in Daniel?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Daniel typically lands around May 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Daniel?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Daniel typically arrives around Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 27, so the watching starts about Sep 11 — about 158 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Daniel?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Daniel sees about 158 frost-free days — roughly May 6 through Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 27 to Sep 27, about 123 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Daniel?
The federal record around Daniel is a meaningful one — 219 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (148), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 I protect my plants from frost in Daniel?
From about Sep 11 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Daniel's scale — its 5b band and its 158-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Daniel'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 Daniel’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Daniel's own scale — its own ~158-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,105 acres it covers and 219 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Daniel's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Daniel's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 6 and Oct 11 and the ~158-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 219 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Daniel, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Daniel's boundary and the 2,105 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~158-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Daniel's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Daniellydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Daniel's 2,105 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wasatch County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wasatch 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 Wasatch County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Daniel's 2,105 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Daniel you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,105 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Daniel-wide figureread your own land →