Emigration Canyon metro township, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — 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, blackberry, california poppy, 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 Emigration Canyon metro township, 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 Emigration Canyon metro township lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Emigration Canyon metro township — the short answer
Emigration Canyon metro township, Utah: USDA zone 6b, about 167 days between hard freezes, across 12K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~167
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 12K 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 6b is Emigration Canyon metro township's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Emigration Canyon metro township's 167-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Emigration Canyon metro township
Each reading below is measured for Emigration Canyon metro township itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEmigration Canyon metro township runs about 167 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
MeasuredEmigration Canyon metro township sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Emigration Canyon metro township is in
Emigration Canyon metro township sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Emigration Canyon metro township's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Salt Lake County is mostly Central Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Emigration Canyon metro township
Every plant below cleared Emigration Canyon metro township's own zone 6b and its 167-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Emigration Canyon metro township?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Emigration Canyon metro township
Spotted lanternfly documented 29 miles from Emigration Canyon metro township, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Emigration Canyon metro township
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Emigration Canyon metro township. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- (A- 1- 2)32dad- 2Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- (A- 1- 2)33aaa- 2Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- (A- 1- 2)33aaa- 3Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- LITTLE MOUNTAIN GATE STATIONBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- (A- 1- 2)27bdd- 3Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- (A- 1- 2)27bdd- 4Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- (A- 1- 2)16dac- 1Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- (D- 1- 1) 1dbd- 4Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- UDOT STA. # 2434Underground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- (D- 1- 1) 1ccd- 1Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- MOUNTAIN DELL GOLF COURSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- Treasure Box MineMining · 3.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Emigration Canyon metro township'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 Emigration Canyon metro township.
Total Sites
1,470
within ~10 miles of Emigration Canyon metro township
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
30 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Emigration Canyon metro township
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Emigration Canyon metro township
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Emigration Canyon metro township, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 30 sites within ~10 miles of Emigration Canyon metro township. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Emigration Canyon metro township
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 Emigration Canyon metro township average
Your land is one point inside Emigration Canyon metro township
Everything above resolves to Emigration Canyon metro township as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 12K 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 Emigration Canyon metro township Average
Emigration Canyon metro township Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Emigration Canyon metro township
- ●One soil character for all of Emigration Canyon metro township
- ●Frost dates read at Emigration Canyon metro township's scale: May 1 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Emigration Canyon metro township's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Emigration Canyon metro township
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Emigration Canyon metro township, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Emigration Canyon metro township averages can't show:
We read public map data around Emigration Canyon metro township — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Emigration Canyon metro township average
How we know this about Emigration Canyon metro township
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 Emigration Canyon metro township’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 Emigration Canyon metro township
When does frost risk typically end in Emigration Canyon metro township?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Emigration Canyon metro township typically lands around May 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Emigration Canyon metro township?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Emigration Canyon metro township typically arrives around Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 1, so the watching starts about Sep 15 — about 167 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Emigration Canyon metro township?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Emigration Canyon metro township sees about 167 frost-free days — roughly May 1 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 22 to Oct 1, about 132 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Emigration Canyon metro township?
The federal record around Emigration Canyon metro township runs heavier than most — 1,470 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (873), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.0 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Emigration Canyon metro township?
From about Sep 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Emigration Canyon metro township's scale — its 6b band and its 167-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Emigration Canyon metro township'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 Emigration Canyon metro township’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Emigration Canyon metro township's own scale — its own ~167-day season between 28°F freezes, the 11,662 acres it covers and 1,470 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Emigration Canyon metro township's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Emigration Canyon metro township's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 1 and Oct 15 and the ~167-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,470 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Emigration Canyon metro township, the closest Nitrate record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Emigration Canyon metro township's boundary and the 11,662 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~167-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Emigration Canyon metro township sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Emigration Canyon metro townshiplydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Emigration Canyon metro township's 11,662 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Salt Lake County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Emigration Canyon metro township's 11,662 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Emigration Canyon metro township you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 11,662 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.0 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 Emigration Canyon metro township-wide figureread your own land →
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