Maeser, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Maeser, 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 Maeser lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Maeser — the short answer
Maeser, Utah: USDA zone 6a, about 175 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- 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 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~175
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 6a is Maeser's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maeser's 175-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maeser
Each reading below is measured for Maeser itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMaeser runs about 175 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
MeasuredMaeser sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Maeser is in
Maeser sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Maeser's own centroid rather than borrowed from Uintah County.
What Grows in Maeser
Every plant below cleared Maeser's own zone 6a and its 175-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maeser?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Maeser
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maeser. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MIDWESTERN SERVICES INC.Brownfields · 2500 ft
- GRANT & CHERYL RICHENSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- COUNTRY CASH MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 7-ELEVEN 1852-23471Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PHILIP W. MARTIN WATER SERV.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MAESER EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY - VERNALBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- SEARLE GAS CO. INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- MORT'S CAR WASHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- SMITHS #82Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- KMART #9225Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- SHERWIN-WILLIAMS #708664Brownfields · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maeser'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 Maeser.
Total Sites
188
within ~10 miles of Maeser
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
8 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maeser
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maeser
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Maeser
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 Maeser
Everything above resolves to Maeser as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Maeser Average
Maeser Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Maeser
- ●One soil character for all of Maeser
- ●Frost dates read at Maeser's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maeser's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maeser
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maeser, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Maeser — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maeser average
How we know this about Maeser
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 Maeser’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 Maeser
When does frost risk typically end in Maeser?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maeser 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 Maeser?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maeser typically arrives around Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 4, so the watching starts about Sep 18 — about 175 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maeser?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maeser sees about 175 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 4, about 140 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maeser?
The federal record around Maeser shows 188 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (108), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Maeser?
From about Sep 18 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Maeser's scale — its 6a band and its 175-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maeser'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 Maeser’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Maeser's own scale — its own ~175-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,138 acres it covers and 188 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maeser's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Maeser's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 18 and the ~175-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 188 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maeser, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maeser's boundary and the 4,138 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~175-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maeser's own centroid, the Colorado PlateausUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maeser's 4,138 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Uintah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Uintah 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 Uintah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maeser's 4,138 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maeser you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,138 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 Maeser-wide figureread your own land →
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