Hobble Creek, 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.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Hobble 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 Hobble 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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Hobble Creek — the short answer
Hobble Creek, Utah: USDA zone 6b, about 181 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~181
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 6b is Hobble Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hobble Creek's 181-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hobble Creek
Each reading below is measured for Hobble Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHobble Creek runs about 181 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
MeasuredHobble Creek 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 Hobble Creek is in
Hobble Creek sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Hobble Creek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Utah County.
What Grows in Hobble Creek
Every plant below cleared Hobble Creek's own zone 6b and its 181-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hobble Creek?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Hobble Creek
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Hobble Creek, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hobble Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hobble Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MIDVALE CITY WATER SYSTEMPFAS · 2100 ft
- Surprise GroupMining · 0.6 mi
- (D- 8- 4) 7aa - 1Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- (D- 8- 3) 1cbd- 1Nitrate · 4.3 mi
- CHRIS CANNON RESIDENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- SPRINGVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- (D- 7- 3)34cdb- 1Nitrate · 5.4 mi
- (D- 7- 3)34bcb- 1Nitrate · 5.5 mi
- SPRINGVILLE CITY COMPOUNDUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- OMS 9Underground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- ALPINE CREATIONS - SPRINGVILLEBrownfields · 5.9 mi
- STATE INVESTMENT CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hobble 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 Hobble Creek.
Total Sites
409
within ~10 miles of Hobble Creek
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hobble Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hobble Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hobble Creek, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Hobble Creek. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Hobble 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 Hobble Creek average
Your land is one point inside Hobble Creek
Everything above resolves to Hobble Creek 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 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 Hobble Creek Average
Hobble Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Hobble Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Hobble Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Hobble Creek's scale: Apr 25 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hobble Creek's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hobble Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hobble Creek, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hobble Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hobble Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hobble Creek average
How we know this about Hobble 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 Hobble 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 Hobble Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Hobble Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hobble Creek typically lands around Apr 25, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Hobble Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hobble Creek typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 181 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hobble Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hobble Creek sees about 181 frost-free days — roughly Apr 25 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 16 to Oct 9, about 146 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hobble Creek?
The federal record around Hobble Creek is a meaningful one — 409 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (241), the nearest PFAS record about 0.4 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 Hobble Creek?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hobble Creek's scale — its 6b band and its 181-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hobble 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 Hobble Creek’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hobble Creek's own scale — its own ~181-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,371 acres it covers and 409 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hobble Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hobble Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 25 and Oct 23 and the ~181-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 409 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hobble Creek, the closest PFAS record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hobble Creek's boundary and the 1,371 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~181-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hobble Creek's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hobble Creeklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hobble Creek's 1,371 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Utah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Utah 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 Utah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hobble Creek's 1,371 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hobble 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 1,371 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record about 0.4 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 Hobble Creek-wide figureread your own land →
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