Midway, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Midway, 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 Midway 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 Midway — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Midway — the short answer
Midway, Utah: USDA zone 6a, about 145 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~145
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 Midway's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Midway's 145-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Midway
Each reading below is measured for Midway itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMidway runs about 145 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
MeasuredMidway 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 Midway is in
Midway sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Midway's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wasatch County.
What Grows in Midway
Every plant below cleared Midway's own zone 6a and its 145-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Midway?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Short seasons reward decisiveness — quick-maturing varieties late, hardy greens under cover, and next year’s garlic in the ground before it closes.
Documented around Midway
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from Midway, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Midway
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Midway. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MIDWAY CITY SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- MIDWAY 7-ELEVENUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- RIDLEYS EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MIDWAY AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- (D- 3- 4)33aad- 1Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- (D- 3- 4)26dba- 1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- (D- 3- 4)35dab- 1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- (D- 3- 4)33acb- 3Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- (D- 3- 4)33acb- 2Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- (D- 4- 4) 3ada- 1Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- THOMAS L PROBST WELL (80 FEET DEEP)Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- GRAVEL PIT 1000 SOUTH 200 EAST (HEBER)Nitrate · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Midway'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 Midway.
Total Sites
609
within ~10 miles of Midway
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Midway
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Midway
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Midway, Mining runs higher than the national average — 361 sites within ~10 miles of Midway. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Midway
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 Midway average
Your land is one point inside Midway
Everything above resolves to Midway 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 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 Midway Average
Midway Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Midway
- ●One soil character for all of Midway
- ●Frost dates read at Midway's scale: May 10 to Oct 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Midway's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Midway
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Midway, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Midway averages can't show:
We read public map data around Midway — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Midway average
How we know this about Midway
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 Midway’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 Midway
When does frost risk typically end in Midway?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Midway typically lands around May 10, 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 31.
When is the first frost in Midway?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Midway typically arrives around Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 18, so the watching starts about Sep 2 — about 145 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Midway?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Midway sees about 145 frost-free days — roughly May 10 through Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 31 to Sep 18, about 110 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Midway?
The federal record around Midway runs heavier than most — 609 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (361), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Midway?
With about 145 frost-free days between hard freezes, Midway 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 173 to 201 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 10 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Midway's scale — its 6a band and its 145-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Midway'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 Midway’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Midway's own scale — its own ~145-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,947 acres it covers and 609 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Midway's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Midway's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 10 and Oct 2 and the ~145-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 609 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Midway, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Midway's boundary and the 3,947 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~145-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Midway's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Midwaylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Midway's 3,947 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wasatch County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wasatch 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 Wasatch County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Midway's 3,947 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Midway you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,947 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Midway-wide figureread your own land →