Vineyard, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Vineyard, 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 Vineyard lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Vineyard — the short answer
Vineyard, Utah: USDA zone 7a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 7a is Vineyard's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Vineyard's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Vineyard
Each reading below is measured for Vineyard itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVineyard runs about 209 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
MeasuredVineyard sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Vineyard is in
Vineyard sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Vineyard's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Utah County is mostly Wasatch and Uinta Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Vineyard
Every plant below cleared Vineyard's own zone 7a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Vineyard?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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.
Documented around Vineyard
Spotted lanternfly documented 29 miles from Vineyard, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Vineyard
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Vineyard. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- (D- 6- 2)18abb- 2Nitrate · 1700 ft
- VINEYARD CITYPFAS · 1800 ft
- (D- 6- 2)17bcb- 1Nitrate · 2100 ft
- (D- 6- 2) 8cac- 5Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- (D- 6- 2) 8bcd- 4Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- GENEVA WORKS BENZOL PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- GENEVA WORKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- HECKETT, PLANT #12Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HARSCO METALS PLANT 12Toxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- HARSCO METALS PLANT 12Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- U.S. STEEL CORPORATION - TREATMENT UNITBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- INTERMOUNTAIN FARMERS ASSOCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Vineyard'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 Vineyard.
Total Sites
902
within ~10 miles of Vineyard
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Vineyard
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Vineyard
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Vineyard, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Vineyard — PFAS (9 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (56 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Vineyard
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 Vineyard average
Your land is one point inside Vineyard
Everything above resolves to Vineyard as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Vineyard Average
Vineyard Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Vineyard
- ●One soil character for all of Vineyard
- ●Frost dates read at Vineyard's scale: Apr 3 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Vineyard's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Vineyard
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Vineyard, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Vineyard averages can't show:
We read public map data around Vineyard — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Vineyard average
How we know this about Vineyard
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 Vineyard’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 Vineyard
When does frost risk typically end in Vineyard?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Vineyard typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Vineyard?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Vineyard typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Vineyard?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Vineyard sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 15, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Vineyard?
The federal record around Vineyard runs heavier than most — 902 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (455), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Vineyard?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Vineyard's scale — its 7a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Vineyard'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 Vineyard’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Vineyard's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,092 acres it covers and 902 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Vineyard's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Vineyard's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Oct 29 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 902 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Vineyard, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Vineyard's boundary and the 3,092 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Vineyard sits in the Central Basin and Range — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Vineyardlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Vineyard's 3,092 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Utah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Utah 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 Utah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Vineyard's 3,092 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Vineyard you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,092 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Vineyard-wide figureread your own land →
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