Scofield, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: zucchini, cranberry, cilantro, and okra. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Scofield, 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 Scofield 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 Scofield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Scofield — the short answer
Scofield, Utah: USDA zone 4b, about 95 days between hard freezes, across 590 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jun 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~95
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 590 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 4b is Scofield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Scofield's 95-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Scofield
Each reading below is measured for Scofield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredScofield runs about 95 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
MeasuredScofield sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
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 Scofield is in
Scofield sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Scofield's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Carbon County is mostly Colorado Plateaus. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Scofield
Every plant below cleared Scofield's own zone 4b and its 95-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Scofield?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around May 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jun 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 12 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Scofield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Scofield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GOOSE'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- BELINA SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- UDOT # 4460AUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CLEAR CREEK CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- VALLEY CAMP LOAD OUT FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- UTAH FUEL COMPANY - SKYLINE MINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- BELINA & UTAH NO. 2 MINESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CANYON FUEL COMPANY/FORMER UTAH FUELBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- JACK OTANI ( C.C.C.C. , INC.)Underground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- MAMMOTH GUARD STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- UDOT STA. #334Underground Storage Tanks · 8.9 mi
- Lepord No. 1Mining · 9.1 mi
1 more site is on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Scofield'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 Scofield.
Total Sites
13
within ~10 miles of Scofield
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 mining site (prospects, none worked)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Scofield
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
Check your specific parcel in Scofield
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Your land is one point inside Scofield
Everything above resolves to Scofield as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 590 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 Scofield Average
Scofield Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Scofield
- ●One soil character for all of Scofield
- ●Frost dates read at Scofield's scale: Jun 9 to Sep 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Scofield's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Scofield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Scofield, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Scofield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Scofield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Scofield average
How we know this about Scofield
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 Scofield’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 Scofield
When does frost risk typically end in Scofield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Scofield typically lands around Jun 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Scofield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Scofield typically arrives around Sep 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Aug 29, so the watching starts about Aug 13 — about 95 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Scofield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Scofield sees about 95 frost-free days — roughly Jun 9 through Sep 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 30 to Aug 29, about 60 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Scofield?
The federal record around Scofield is light — 13 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (11), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Scofield?
With about 95 frost-free days between hard freezes, Scofield 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 123 to 151 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the Jun 9 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Scofield's scale — its 4b band and its 95-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Scofield'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 Scofield’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Scofield's own scale — its own ~95-day season between 28°F freezes, the 590 acres it covers and 13 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Scofield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Scofield's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Jun 9 and Sep 12 and the ~95-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 13 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Scofield, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Scofield's boundary and the 590 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~95-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Scofield 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 Scofield's 590 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carbon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carbon 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 Carbon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Scofield's 590 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Scofield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 590 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Scofield-wide figureread your own land →
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