Taylorsville, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Taylorsville, 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 Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Taylorsville — the short answer
Taylorsville, Utah: USDA zone 7b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 7K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 7b is Taylorsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Taylorsville's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Taylorsville
Each reading below is measured for Taylorsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTaylorsville runs about 217 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTaylorsville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Taylorsville is in
Taylorsville sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Taylorsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Salt Lake County.
What Grows in Taylorsville
Every plant below cleared Taylorsville's own zone 7b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Taylorsville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Taylorsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Taylorsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- (C- 2- 1) 9ddd- 1Nitrate · 1000 ft
- (C- 2- 1)10bcb- 1Nitrate · 2100 ft
- SINCLAIR #43028Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- U.S. $1.99 CLEANERSBrownfields · 2500 ft
- SALLY BEAUTY SUPPLY #10857Brownfields · 2600 ft
- PETCO #2205Brownfields · 2600 ft
- (C- 2- 1) 9dcc- 1Nitrate · 2600 ft
- MINIT LUBE #1045Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- COMET ONE HOUR CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- SMITH'S PHOTO LAB #103Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- BATE'S ELECTRICAL SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- HILLSIDE TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Taylorsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Taylorsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Taylorsville, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 60 sites within ~10 miles of Taylorsville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Taylorsville
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 Taylorsville
Everything above resolves to Taylorsville 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 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 Taylorsville Average
Taylorsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Taylorsville
- ●One soil character for all of Taylorsville
- ●Frost dates read at Taylorsville's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Taylorsville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Taylorsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Taylorsville, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Taylorsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Taylorsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Taylorsville average
How we know this about Taylorsville
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 Taylorsville’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 Taylorsville
When does frost risk typically end in Taylorsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Taylorsville typically lands around Mar 30, 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 Apr 20.
When is the first frost in Taylorsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Taylorsville typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Taylorsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Taylorsville sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 19, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Taylorsville?
The federal record around Taylorsville runs heavier than most — 4,125 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,985), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 I protect my plants from frost in Taylorsville?
From about Oct 3 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 Nov 2 (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 Nov 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Taylorsville's scale — its 7b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Taylorsville's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,941 acres it covers and 4,125 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Taylorsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Taylorsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 2 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4,125 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Taylorsville, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Taylorsville's boundary and the 6,941 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville's 6,941 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Salt Lake County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Taylorsville's 6,941 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Taylorsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,941 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Taylorsville-wide figureread your own land →
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