Kanarraville, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kanarraville, 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 Kanarraville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kanarraville — the short answer
Kanarraville, Utah: USDA zone 6b, about 180 days between hard freezes, across 285 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- 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
- ~180
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 285 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 Kanarraville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kanarraville's 180-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kanarraville
Each reading below is measured for Kanarraville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKanarraville runs about 180 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
MeasuredKanarraville 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 Kanarraville is in
Kanarraville sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Kanarraville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Iron County.
What Grows in Kanarraville
Every plant below cleared Kanarraville's own zone 6b and its 180-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kanarraville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (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. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Kanarraville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kanarraville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DALE & BECKY BRITTINGHAMUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- (C-37-12)34abb- 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- (C-37-12)23cbd- 2Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- UnknownMining · 1.8 mi
- Unknown Copper ProspectMining · 1.8 mi
- (C-37-12)15cdc- 1Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- (C-37-12)11dac- 1Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- KOLOB FUELUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- (C-38-12)20bba- 1Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- (C-38-12)20bcc- 1Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- (C-37-12) 5acc- 2Nitrate · 5.5 mi
- (C-37-12) 4bbc- 1Nitrate · 5.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kanarraville'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 Kanarraville.
Total Sites
38
within ~10 miles of Kanarraville
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 mining sites (prospects, none worked)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kanarraville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kanarraville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kanarraville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Kanarraville. 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 Kanarraville
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 Kanarraville average
Your land is one point inside Kanarraville
Everything above resolves to Kanarraville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 285 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 Kanarraville Average
Kanarraville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Kanarraville
- ●One soil character for all of Kanarraville
- ●Frost dates read at Kanarraville's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kanarraville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kanarraville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kanarraville, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kanarraville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kanarraville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kanarraville average
How we know this about Kanarraville
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 Kanarraville’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 Kanarraville
When does frost risk typically end in Kanarraville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kanarraville typically lands around Apr 26, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Kanarraville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kanarraville 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 180 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kanarraville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kanarraville sees about 180 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 9, about 145 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kanarraville?
The federal record around Kanarraville is light — 38 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (22), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 I protect my plants from frost in Kanarraville?
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 Kanarraville's scale — its 6b band and its 180-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kanarraville'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 Kanarraville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kanarraville's own scale — its own ~180-day season between 28°F freezes, the 285 acres it covers and 38 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kanarraville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kanarraville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 23 and the ~180-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 38 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kanarraville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kanarraville's boundary and the 285 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~180-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kanarraville'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 Kanarraville's 285 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Iron County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Iron 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 Iron County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kanarraville's 285 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kanarraville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 285 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Kanarraville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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