Lindon, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lindon, 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 Lindon lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lindon — the short answer
Lindon, Utah: USDA zone 7a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 5K 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 Lindon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lindon's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lindon
Each reading below is measured for Lindon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLindon runs about 208 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
MeasuredLindon 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 Lindon is in
Lindon sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Lindon's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Utah County is mostly Wasatch and Uinta Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lindon
Every plant below cleared Lindon's own zone 7a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lindon?
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 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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.
Documented around Lindon
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Lindon, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lindon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lindon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- (D- 5- 2)33acd- 1Nitrate · 800 ft
- TIMP INDUSTRIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- LINDON HILLS REPAIR SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- 7-ELEVEN # 36334Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MAINTENANCE COMPOUNDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- ACE RENTS, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- LINDON CITYPFAS · 2100 ft
- ALPINE SCHOOL DISTRICT TRANSPORTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- ALPINE SCHOOL DISTRICTBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- CARTER'S GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SALLY BEAUTY SUPPLY # 3726Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- CHOICE AUTO SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lindon'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 Lindon.
Total Sites
879
within ~10 miles of Lindon
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lindon
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lindon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lindon, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 9 sites within ~10 miles of Lindon. 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 Lindon
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 Lindon average
Your land is one point inside Lindon
Everything above resolves to Lindon as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Lindon Average
Lindon Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lindon
- ●One soil character for all of Lindon
- ●Frost dates read at Lindon's scale: Apr 3 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lindon's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lindon
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lindon, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lindon averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lindon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lindon average
How we know this about Lindon
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 Lindon’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 Lindon
When does frost risk typically end in Lindon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lindon typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Lindon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lindon typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lindon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lindon sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 14, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lindon?
The federal record around Lindon runs heavier than most — 879 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (452), the nearest Nitrate 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 Lindon?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lindon's scale — its 7a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lindon'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 Lindon’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lindon's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,345 acres it covers and 879 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lindon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lindon's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Oct 28 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 879 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lindon, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lindon's boundary and the 5,345 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lindon sits in the Central Basin and Range — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lindonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lindon's 5,345 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 Lindon's 5,345 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lindon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,345 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Lindon-wide figureread your own land →
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