Magna metro township, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Magna metro township, 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 Magna metro township lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Magna metro township — the short answer
Magna metro township, Utah: USDA zone 7b, about 230 days between hard freezes, across 13K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~230
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 13K 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 7b is Magna metro township's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Magna metro township's 230-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Magna metro township
Each reading below is measured for Magna metro township itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMagna metro township runs about 230 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
MeasuredMagna metro township sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Magna metro township is in
Magna metro township sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Magna metro township's own centroid rather than borrowed from Salt Lake County.
What Grows in Magna metro township
Every plant below cleared Magna metro township's own zone 7b and its 230-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Magna metro township?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Magna metro township
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Magna metro township. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GARFIELD SECTION HOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- (B- 1- 3)34bcb- 1Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- KENNECOTT UTAH COPPER TAILINGS IMPOUNDMENTBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- (C- 1- 3)15bca- 2Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- (C- 1- 3)15bda- 2Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- (C- 1- 3)15cbb- 1Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- (C- 1- 3)15bdc- 2Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- (Facility) Garfield Copper SmelterMining · 2.0 mi
- (Facility) Garfield Copper RefineryMining · 2.1 mi
- (C- 1- 3)15dbb- 2Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- (C- 1- 3)15dbb- 1Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- UNION CARBIDE CORP. LINDE DIV.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Magna metro township'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 Magna metro township.
Total Sites
454
within ~10 miles of Magna metro township
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
9 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Magna metro township
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Magna metro township
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Magna metro township, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Magna metro township — Nitrate (190 sites) and Superfund (9 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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Your land is one point inside Magna metro township
Everything above resolves to Magna metro township as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 13K 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 Magna metro township Average
Magna metro township Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Magna metro township
- ●One soil character for all of Magna metro township
- ●Frost dates read at Magna metro township's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Magna metro township's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Magna metro township
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Magna metro township, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Magna metro township averages can't show:
We read public map data around Magna metro township — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Magna metro township average
How we know this about Magna metro township
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 Magna metro township’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 Magna metro township
When does frost risk typically end in Magna metro township?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Magna metro township typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Magna metro township?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Magna metro township typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 230 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Magna metro township?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Magna metro township sees about 230 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 24, about 195 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Magna metro township?
The federal record around Magna metro township is a meaningful one — 454 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (190), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Magna metro township?
From about Oct 8 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 Nov 7 (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 Nov 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Magna metro township's scale — its 7b band and its 230-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Magna metro township'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 Magna metro township’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Magna metro township's own scale — its own ~230-day season between 28°F freezes, the 12,744 acres it covers and 454 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Magna metro township's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Magna metro township's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 7 and the ~230-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 454 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Magna metro township, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Magna metro township's boundary and the 12,744 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~230-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Magna metro township'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 Magna metro township's 12,744 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Salt Lake County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Magna metro township's 12,744 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Magna metro township you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 12,744 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Magna metro township-wide figureread your own land →
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