Neola, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Neola, 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 Neola 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 Neola — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Neola — the short answer
Neola, Utah: USDA zone 6a, about 169 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 29
- 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
- ~169
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Neola's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Neola's 169-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Neola
Each reading below is measured for Neola itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNeola runs about 169 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
MeasuredNeola 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 Neola is in
Neola sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Neola's own centroid rather than borrowed from Duchesne County.
What Grows in Neola
Every plant below cleared Neola's own zone 6a and its 169-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Neola?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 29 (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. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Neola
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Neola. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- K & DUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- NEOLA ELEMENTARY BUS YARD & FIRE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- U(C- 1- 2) 3dbb- 1Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- GASOLINE TANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- U(C- 1- 2) 3bbc- 1Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- GWEC-ALTONAH GAS PLANTBrownfields · 4.2 mi
- U(C- 1- 2)15bbc- 1Nitrate · 4.5 mi
- BLUEBELL COMPRESSOR STATIONBrownfields · 4.7 mi
- BLUEBELL GAS PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 4.7 mi
- U(C- 1- 1)13ccd- 1Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- U(C- 1- 2)27aaa- 1Nitrate · 5.2 mi
- U(C- 1- 2)22cbb- 1Nitrate · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Neola'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 Neola.
Total Sites
104
within ~10 miles of Neola
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Neola
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Neola
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Neola, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 48 sites within ~10 miles of Neola. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Neola
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 Neola
Everything above resolves to Neola as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Neola Average
Neola Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Neola
- ●One soil character for all of Neola
- ●Frost dates read at Neola's scale: Apr 29 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Neola's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Neola
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Neola, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Neola averages can't show:
We read public map data around Neola — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Neola average
How we know this about Neola
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 Neola’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 Neola
When does frost risk typically end in Neola?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Neola typically lands around Apr 29, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Neola?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Neola 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 169 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Neola?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Neola sees about 169 frost-free days — roughly Apr 29 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 20 to Oct 1, about 134 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Neola?
The federal record around Neola shows 104 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (48), 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 Neola?
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 Neola's scale — its 6a band and its 169-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Neola'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 Neola’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Neola's own scale — its own ~169-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,414 acres it covers and 104 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Neola's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Neola's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 29 and Oct 15 and the ~169-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 104 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Neola, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Neola's boundary and the 2,414 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~169-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Neola's own centroid, the Colorado PlateausUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Neola's 2,414 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 Neola's 2,414 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Neola you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,414 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 Neola-wide figureread your own land →
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