Snyderville, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, okra, cranberry, lavender, and pumpkin all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Snyderville, 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 Snyderville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Snyderville — the short answer
Snyderville, Utah: USDA zone 5a, about 115 days between hard freezes, across 7K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~115
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 7K 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 5a is Snyderville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Snyderville's 115-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Snyderville
Each reading below is measured for Snyderville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSnyderville runs about 115 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
MeasuredSnyderville sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Snyderville is in
Snyderville sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Snyderville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Summit County.
What Grows in Snyderville
Every plant below cleared Snyderville's own zone 5a and its 115-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Snyderville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around May 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 21 — 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.
Documented around Snyderville
Spotted lanternfly documented 17 miles from Snyderville, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Snyderville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Snyderville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 7-ELEVEN #53606 BLUE ROOFUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- BEAR HOLLOW MERCURYSuperfund · 0.6 mi
- (D- 1- 4)31aac- 2Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- WILLOW DRAW FLEET MAINTENANCE SHOPBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- 7-ELEVEN #53603 /1833-24022Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- (D- 1- 4)19bca- 1Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- UDOT STA. #235 UHP PUMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- UDOT STA. # 2435Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- SMITH'S FOOD & DRUG PHOTO LABBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- SMITHS #72Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- KIMBALL ROAD SHEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- THE CANYONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Snyderville'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 Snyderville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Snyderville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Snyderville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Snyderville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Snyderville — Mining (366 sites) and Superfund (10 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Snyderville
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 Snyderville
Everything above resolves to Snyderville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 7K 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 Snyderville Average
Snyderville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Snyderville
- ●One soil character for all of Snyderville
- ●Frost dates read at Snyderville's scale: May 29 to Sep 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Snyderville's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Snyderville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Snyderville, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Snyderville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Snyderville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Snyderville average
How we know this about Snyderville
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 Snyderville’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 Snyderville
When does frost risk typically end in Snyderville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Snyderville typically lands around May 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 Jun 19.
When is the first frost in Snyderville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Snyderville typically arrives around Sep 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 7, so the watching starts about Aug 22 — about 115 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Snyderville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Snyderville sees about 115 frost-free days — roughly May 29 through Sep 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 19 to Sep 7, about 80 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Snyderville?
The federal record around Snyderville runs heavier than most — 497 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (366), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Snyderville?
With about 115 frost-free days between hard freezes, Snyderville 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 143 to 171 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 29 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Snyderville's scale — its 5a band and its 115-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Snyderville'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 Snyderville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Snyderville's own scale — its own ~115-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,955 acres it covers and 497 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Snyderville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Snyderville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 29 and Sep 21 and the ~115-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 497 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Snyderville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Snyderville's boundary and the 6,955 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~115-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Snyderville's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Snydervillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Snyderville's 6,955 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 Snyderville's 6,955 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Snyderville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,955 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Snyderville-wide figureread your own land →