Marysvale, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Marysvale, 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 Marysvale lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Marysvale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Marysvale — the short answer
Marysvale, Utah: USDA zone 6a, about 137 days between hard freezes, across 12K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~137
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 12K 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 Marysvale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Marysvale's 137-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Marysvale
Each reading below is measured for Marysvale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMarysvale runs about 137 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
MeasuredMarysvale 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 Marysvale is in
Marysvale sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Marysvale's own centroid rather than borrowed from Piute County.
What Grows in Marysvale
Every plant below cleared Marysvale's own zone 6a and its 137-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Marysvale?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a season this compact, fast finishers and cold-hardy greens do the late work, and garlic tucked in before the freeze repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Marysvale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Marysvale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PIUTE TRADING COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- OLD SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- SUE'S ABANDONED TEXACO STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- RainbowMining · 2.8 mi
- Lucky BoyMining · 3.2 mi
- Tate ProspectMining · 3.2 mi
- DALTON MILLSuperfund · 3.3 mi
- Plata AzulMining · 3.4 mi
- Saturday ProspectMining · 3.4 mi
- Deer Trail MineMining · 3.5 mi
- TateMining · 3.6 mi
- Michelson ProspectMining · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Marysvale'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 Marysvale.
Total Sites
77
within ~10 miles of Marysvale
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Marysvale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Marysvale, Mining runs higher than the national average — 67 sites within ~10 miles of Marysvale. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Marysvale
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 Marysvale average
Your land is one point inside Marysvale
Everything above resolves to Marysvale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 12K 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 Marysvale Average
Marysvale Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Marysvale
- ●One soil character for all of Marysvale
- ●Frost dates read at Marysvale's scale: May 17 to Oct 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Marysvale's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Marysvale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Marysvale, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Marysvale averages can't show:
We read public map data around Marysvale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marysvale average
How we know this about Marysvale
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 Marysvale’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 Marysvale
When does frost risk typically end in Marysvale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Marysvale typically lands around May 17, 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 Jun 7.
When is the first frost in Marysvale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Marysvale typically arrives around Oct 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 17, so the watching starts about Sep 1 — about 137 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Marysvale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Marysvale sees about 137 frost-free days — roughly May 17 through Oct 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 7 to Sep 17, about 102 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Marysvale?
The federal record around Marysvale runs heavier than most — 77 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (67), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 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 gardeners stretch the season in Marysvale?
With about 137 frost-free days between hard freezes, Marysvale 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 165 to 193 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 17 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Marysvale's scale — its 6a band and its 137-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Marysvale'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 Marysvale’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Marysvale's own scale — its own ~137-day season between 28°F freezes, the 11,500 acres it covers and 77 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Marysvale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Marysvale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 17 and Oct 1 and the ~137-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 77 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Marysvale, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Marysvale's boundary and the 11,500 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~137-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Marysvale's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Marysvale's 11,500 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Piute County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Piute 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 Piute County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Marysvale's 11,500 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Marysvale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 11,500 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 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 Marysvale-wide figureread your own land →
More in Utah
Wider growing context
What grows across UtahMarysvale sits outside our named growing regions, so Utah as a whole is its closest context here.