Panguitch, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Panguitch, 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 Panguitch lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Panguitch — the short answer
Panguitch, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 122 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~122
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 5b is Panguitch's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Panguitch's 122-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Panguitch
Each reading below is measured for Panguitch itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPanguitch runs about 122 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
MeasuredPanguitch 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 Panguitch is in
Panguitch sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Panguitch's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Garfield County is mostly Colorado Plateaus. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Panguitch
Every plant below cleared Panguitch's own zone 5b and its 122-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Panguitch?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. When the window is tight, the fall moves are quick ones — baby greens, radishes, and garlic set for next season.
What's on the federal record near Panguitch
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Panguitch. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- THOMAS SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- RALLY STOP #8Underground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- PANGUITCH TEXACO TRI-MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- FOY'S COUNTRY CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- PANGUITCH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- K.B. EXPRESS #7Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- KAIBAB INDUSTRIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- GARFIELD COUNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- GARFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IHCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- JUNCTION MARKET XVII LLC (JM PANGUITCH)Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- UDOT # 4469Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- GARFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (IHC)Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Panguitch'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 Panguitch.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Panguitch
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Panguitch
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Panguitch, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Panguitch. 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 Panguitch
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 Panguitch average
Your land is one point inside Panguitch
Everything above resolves to Panguitch 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 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 Panguitch Average
Panguitch Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Panguitch
- ●One soil character for all of Panguitch
- ●Frost dates read at Panguitch's scale: May 26 to Sep 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Panguitch's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Panguitch
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Panguitch, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Panguitch averages can't show:
We read public map data around Panguitch — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Panguitch average
How we know this about Panguitch
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 Panguitch’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 Panguitch
When does frost risk typically end in Panguitch?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Panguitch typically lands around May 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Panguitch?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Panguitch typically arrives around Sep 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 11, so the watching starts about Aug 26 — about 122 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Panguitch?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Panguitch sees about 122 frost-free days — roughly May 26 through Sep 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 16 to Sep 11, about 87 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Panguitch?
The federal record around Panguitch is light — 38 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (19), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Panguitch?
With about 122 frost-free days between hard freezes, Panguitch 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 150 to 178 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 26 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Panguitch's scale — its 5b band and its 122-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Panguitch'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 Panguitch’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Panguitch's own scale — its own ~122-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,072 acres it covers and 38 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Panguitch's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Panguitch's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 26 and Sep 25 and the ~122-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 38 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Panguitch, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Panguitch's boundary and the 2,072 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~122-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Panguitch sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Panguitch's 2,072 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Garfield County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Garfield 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 Garfield County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Panguitch's 2,072 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Panguitch you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,072 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Panguitch-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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