Fruit Heights, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Fruit Heights, 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 Fruit Heights lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fruit Heights — the short answer
Fruit Heights, Utah: USDA zone 7a, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 7a is Fruit Heights's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fruit Heights's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fruit Heights
Each reading below is measured for Fruit Heights itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFruit Heights runs about 215 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredFruit Heights sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Fruit Heights is in
Fruit Heights sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Fruit Heights's own centroid rather than borrowed from Davis County.
What Grows in Fruit Heights
Every plant below cleared Fruit Heights's own zone 7a and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fruit Heights?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Fruit Heights
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fruit Heights. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LAMAR A. GREENUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- PUMP HOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- DAVIS PARK GOLF COURSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- CHEVRON USA - 78049 MICHAEL TOOLSON CHEVBrownfields · 2600 ft
- (B- 3- 1) 2dcc- 2Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- DAVIS COUNTY SCHOOL PRINTING SHOPBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- DAVIS COUNTY ROAD DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- DAVIS APPLIED TECHNOLOGY CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- (B- 4- 1)35aaa- 1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY KAYSVILLEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- CHEVRON 78049Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- (B- 4- 1)35bda- 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fruit Heights'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 Fruit Heights.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fruit Heights
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fruit Heights
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fruit Heights, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Fruit Heights — PFAS (16 sites) and Superfund (9 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Fruit Heights
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 Fruit Heights
Everything above resolves to Fruit Heights 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 city 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 Fruit Heights Average
Fruit Heights Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Fruit Heights
- ●One soil character for all of Fruit Heights
- ●Frost dates read at Fruit Heights's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fruit Heights's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fruit Heights
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fruit Heights, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fruit Heights averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fruit Heights — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fruit Heights average
How we know this about Fruit Heights
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Fruit Heights’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Fruit Heights
When does frost risk typically end in Fruit Heights?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fruit Heights typically lands around Mar 31, 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 Apr 21.
When is the first frost in Fruit Heights?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fruit Heights typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fruit Heights?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fruit Heights sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 18, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fruit Heights?
The federal record around Fruit Heights runs heavier than most — 616 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (303), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Fruit Heights?
From about Oct 2 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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fruit Heights's scale — its 7a band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fruit Heights'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 Fruit Heights’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Fruit Heights's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,478 acres it covers and 616 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fruit Heights's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fruit Heights's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 1 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 616 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fruit Heights, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fruit Heights's boundary and the 1,478 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fruit Heights'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 Fruit Heights's 1,478 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Davis County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Davis 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 Davis County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fruit Heights's 1,478 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fruit Heights you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,478 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 Fruit Heights-wide figureread your own land →
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