Scipio, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Scipio, 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 Scipio 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 Scipio — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Scipio — the short answer
Scipio, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 160 days between hard freezes, across 664 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~160
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 664 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 Scipio's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Scipio's 160-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Scipio
Each reading below is measured for Scipio itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredScipio runs about 160 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
MeasuredScipio 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 Scipio is in
Scipio sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Scipio's own centroid rather than borrowed from Millard County.
What Grows in Scipio
Every plant below cleared Scipio's own zone 5b and its 160-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Scipio?
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 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 9 — 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 Scipio
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Scipio. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OLD SORENSON STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- SCIPIO GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- UDOT # 4484Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SUNMART # 804Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- EAGLES LANDING FLYING J SCIPIOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- 'SCIPIO UT' SITE #89518Underground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- FAA-SCIPIO RMLR QRSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- (C-17- 2) 9bad- 1Nitrate · 7.4 mi
Measured from Scipio'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 Scipio.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Scipio
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.
Check your specific parcel in Scipio
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25+ data sources read at your address, not the Scipio average
Your land is one point inside Scipio
Everything above resolves to Scipio as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 664 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 Scipio Average
Scipio Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Scipio
- ●One soil character for all of Scipio
- ●Frost dates read at Scipio's scale: May 2 to Oct 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Scipio's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Scipio
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Three things about your lot that Scipio averages can't show:
We read public map data around Scipio — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Scipio average
How we know this about Scipio
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 Scipio’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 Scipio
When does frost risk typically end in Scipio?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Scipio typically lands around May 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Scipio?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Scipio typically arrives around Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 25, so the watching starts about Sep 9 — about 160 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Scipio?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Scipio sees about 160 frost-free days — roughly May 2 through Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 23 to Sep 25, about 125 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Scipio?
The federal record around Scipio is light — 9 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7), 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 I protect my plants from frost in Scipio?
From about Sep 9 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Scipio's scale — its 5b band and its 160-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Scipio'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 Scipio’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Scipio's own scale — its own ~160-day season between 28°F freezes, the 664 acres it covers and 9 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Scipio's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Scipio's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 2 and Oct 9 and the ~160-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 9 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Scipio, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Scipio's boundary and the 664 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~160-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Scipio's own centroid, the Central Basin and RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Scipio's 664 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Millard County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Millard 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 Millard County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Scipio's 664 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Scipio you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 664 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 Scipio-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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