Veyo, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Veyo, 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 Veyo lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Veyo — the short answer
Veyo, Utah: USDA zone 8a, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 8a is Veyo's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Veyo's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Veyo
Each reading below is measured for Veyo itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVeyo runs about 242 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
MeasuredVeyo sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Veyo is in
Veyo sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Veyo's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Washington County is mostly Mojave Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Veyo
Every plant below cleared Veyo's own zone 8a and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Veyo?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Veyo
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Veyo. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SPANISH TRAIL SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 75 ft
- VEYO MERCUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- (C-40-17)21dca- 2Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- (C-41-16) 4bcc- 1Nitrate · 6.4 mi
- UnknownMining · 6.5 mi
- GUNLOCK SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICTPFAS · 6.8 mi
- (C-41-16) 9cba- 1Nitrate · 7.5 mi
- Lejaiv Unite #1-14Mining · 8.0 mi
- Lejaiv Unite 1-14Mining · 8.0 mi
- (C-41-16)16bbd- 1Nitrate · 8.0 mi
- Stateline (Gold Springs) DistrictMining · 8.0 mi
- Stateline DistrictMining · 8.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Veyo'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 Veyo.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Veyo
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Veyo
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Veyo, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Veyo — Mining (8 sites) and Nitrate (26 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Veyo
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 Veyo average
Your land is one point inside Veyo
Everything above resolves to Veyo as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Veyo Average
Veyo Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Veyo
- ●One soil character for all of Veyo
- ●Frost dates read at Veyo's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Veyo's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Veyo
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Veyo, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Veyo averages can't show:
We read public map data around Veyo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Veyo average
How we know this about Veyo
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 Veyo’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 Veyo
When does frost risk typically end in Veyo?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Veyo typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Veyo?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Veyo typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Veyo?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Veyo sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Oct 30, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Veyo?
The federal record around Veyo is a meaningful one — 38 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (26), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 I protect my plants from frost in Veyo?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Veyo's scale — its 8a band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Veyo'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 Veyo’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Veyo's own scale — its own ~242-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,322 acres it covers and 38 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Veyo's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Veyo's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 13 and the ~242-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 38 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Veyo, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Veyo's boundary and the 1,322 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Veyo sits in the Central Basin and Range — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Veyo's 1,322 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washington 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 Washington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Veyo's 1,322 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Veyo you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,322 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 Veyo-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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