Samak, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Samak, 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 Samak 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 Samak — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Samak — the short answer
Samak, Utah: USDA zone 6a, about 128 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~128
- 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 Samak's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Samak's 128-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Samak
Each reading below is measured for Samak itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSamak runs about 128 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
MeasuredSamak 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 Samak is in
Samak sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Samak's own centroid rather than borrowed from Summit County.
What Grows in Samak
Every plant below cleared Samak's own zone 6a and its 128-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Samak?
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 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 27 — 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 Samak
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Samak, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Samak
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Samak. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- (D- 2- 6)23ccd- 1Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- (D- 2- 6)26abb- 1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- (D- 2- 6)21ddb- 1Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- (D- 2- 6)26aad- 1Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- (D- 2- 6)16cda- 1Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- LEAVITT LUMBER CO., INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- SOUTH SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICT BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- SOUTH SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- KAMAS ROAD SHEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- UDOT STA. # 2437 KAMASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BLAZZARD LUMBERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- MIRROR LAKE SERVICE CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Samak'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 Samak.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Samak
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Samak
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Samak, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 82 sites within ~10 miles of Samak. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Samak
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 Samak average
Your land is one point inside Samak
Everything above resolves to Samak 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 Samak Average
Samak Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Samak
- ●One soil character for all of Samak
- ●Frost dates read at Samak's scale: May 22 to Sep 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Samak's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Samak
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Samak, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Samak averages can't show:
We read public map data around Samak — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Samak average
How we know this about Samak
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 Samak’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 Samak
When does frost risk typically end in Samak?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Samak typically lands around May 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Samak?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Samak typically arrives around Sep 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 13, so the watching starts about Aug 28 — about 128 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Samak?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Samak sees about 128 frost-free days — roughly May 22 through Sep 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 12 to Sep 13, about 93 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Samak?
The federal record around Samak is a meaningful one — 116 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (82), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Samak?
With about 128 frost-free days between hard freezes, Samak 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 156 to 184 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 22 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Samak's scale — its 6a band and its 128-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Samak'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 Samak’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Samak's own scale — its own ~128-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,579 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Samak's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Samak's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 22 and Sep 27 and the ~128-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Samak, the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Samak's boundary and the 1,579 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~128-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Samak's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Samaklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Samak's 1,579 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Summit County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Summit 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 Summit County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Samak's 1,579 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Samak you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,579 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Samak-wide figureread your own land →