Hoytsville, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Hoytsville, 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 Hoytsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hoytsville — the short answer
Hoytsville, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 145 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~145
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Hoytsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hoytsville's 145-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hoytsville
Each reading below is measured for Hoytsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHoytsville runs about 145 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
MeasuredHoytsville 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 Hoytsville is in
Hoytsville sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Hoytsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Summit County.
What Grows in Hoytsville
Every plant below cleared Hoytsville's own zone 5b and its 145-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hoytsville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 2 — 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.
Documented around Hoytsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 24 miles from Hoytsville, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hoytsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hoytsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- V & S STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- UTELITEToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- CRANDALL FORD-MERCURYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- GEARY'S CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- BELL'S HOLIDAY HILLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- BULK PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- BELL BROS. OIL COMPANY-SINCLAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- BRISTOW'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- COALVILLE STORAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- NORTH SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- MOORE MOTOR COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- COALVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hoytsville'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 Hoytsville.
Total Sites
40
within ~10 miles of Hoytsville
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hoytsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hoytsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hoytsville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 35 sites within ~10 miles of Hoytsville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Hoytsville
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 Hoytsville average
Your land is one point inside Hoytsville
Everything above resolves to Hoytsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Hoytsville Average
Hoytsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Hoytsville
- ●One soil character for all of Hoytsville
- ●Frost dates read at Hoytsville's scale: May 10 to Oct 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hoytsville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hoytsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hoytsville, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hoytsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hoytsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hoytsville average
How we know this about Hoytsville
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 Hoytsville’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 Hoytsville
When does frost risk typically end in Hoytsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hoytsville typically lands around May 10, 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 31.
When is the first frost in Hoytsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hoytsville typically arrives around Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 18, so the watching starts about Sep 2 — about 145 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hoytsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hoytsville sees about 145 frost-free days — roughly May 10 through Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 31 to Sep 18, about 110 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hoytsville?
The federal record around Hoytsville is light — 40 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (35), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Hoytsville?
With about 145 frost-free days between hard freezes, Hoytsville 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 173 to 201 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 10 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Hoytsville's scale — its 5b band and its 145-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hoytsville'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 Hoytsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hoytsville's own scale — its own ~145-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,885 acres it covers and 40 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hoytsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hoytsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 10 and Oct 2 and the ~145-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 40 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hoytsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hoytsville's boundary and the 2,885 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~145-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hoytsville's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hoytsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hoytsville's 2,885 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Summit County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Summit 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 Summit County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hoytsville's 2,885 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hoytsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,885 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Hoytsville-wide figureread your own land →