Myton, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Myton, 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 Myton 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 Myton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Myton — the short answer
Myton, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 170 days between hard freezes, across 648 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~170
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 648 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 5b is Myton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Myton's 170-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Myton
Each reading below is measured for Myton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMyton runs about 170 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
MeasuredMyton sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Myton is in
Myton sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Myton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Duchesne County.
What Grows in Myton
Every plant below cleared Myton's own zone 5b and its 170-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Myton?
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 Mar 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 15 — 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 Myton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Myton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ROSS BROTHERS FEED & SEEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- TRANS FUELS-BLU STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- MYTON STATIONBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- CHEVRON PIPELINE MYTON FACILITYBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- U(C- 3- 2)28caa- 1Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- MILCHEM INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- UINTAH BASIN TELEPHONE ASS'N INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- U(C- 3- 2) 3ada- 1Nitrate · 4.4 mi
- IOWA TANKLINES, INC. DBA ITL TANKLINESBrownfields · 4.5 mi
- FAA-MYTON VORTAC (MTU)Underground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- GARY'S INSULATION, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- PRAIRIE GOLD WELL SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Myton'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 Myton.
Total Sites
116
within ~10 miles of Myton
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Myton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Myton
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Myton
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 Myton
Everything above resolves to Myton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 648 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 Myton Average
Myton Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Myton
- ●One soil character for all of Myton
- ●Frost dates read at Myton's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Myton's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Myton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Myton, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Myton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Myton average
How we know this about Myton
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 Myton’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 Myton
When does frost risk typically end in Myton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Myton typically lands around Apr 28, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Myton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Myton typically arrives around Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 1, so the watching starts about Sep 15 — about 170 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Myton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Myton sees about 170 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Oct 1, about 135 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Myton?
The federal record around Myton shows 116 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (60), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Myton?
From about Sep 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Myton's scale — its 5b band and its 170-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Myton'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 Myton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Myton's own scale — its own ~170-day season between 28°F freezes, the 648 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Myton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Myton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 15 and the ~170-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Myton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Myton's boundary and the 648 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~170-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Myton's own centroid, the Colorado PlateausUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Myton's 648 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Duchesne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Duchesne 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 Duchesne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Myton's 648 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Myton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 648 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Myton-wide figureread your own land →
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