Wanship, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Wanship, 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 Wanship lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wanship — the short answer
Wanship, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 146 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~146
- 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 5b is Wanship's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wanship's 146-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wanship
Each reading below is measured for Wanship itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWanship runs about 146 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
MeasuredWanship sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Wanship is in
Wanship sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Wanship's own centroid rather than borrowed from Summit County.
What Grows in Wanship
Every plant below cleared Wanship's own zone 5b and its 146-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wanship?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even here the calendar’s edges hold value: thirty-day greens late in the window, then garlic and a rested bed for spring.
Documented around Wanship
Spotted lanternfly documented 20 miles from Wanship, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wanship
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wanship. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- R AUTO SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- OUTPOSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- UDOT STA. # 2436 WANSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- UTAH DOT FIELD LABBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- SUMMIT COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS - OIL USTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- SUMMIT COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS - FUEL USTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- ROCKPORT STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WANSHIP POWER PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- SUMMIT COUNTY LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- LEWIS PEAK SITEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- V & S STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- UTELITEToxics Release Inventory · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wanship'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 Wanship.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wanship
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wanship
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wanship, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wanship — PFAS (3 sites) and Nitrate (28 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Wanship
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 Wanship average
Your land is one point inside Wanship
Everything above resolves to Wanship 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 Wanship Average
Wanship Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Wanship
- ●One soil character for all of Wanship
- ●Frost dates read at Wanship's scale: May 10 to Oct 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wanship's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wanship
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wanship, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wanship averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wanship — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wanship average
How we know this about Wanship
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 Wanship’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 Wanship
When does frost risk typically end in Wanship?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wanship typically lands around May 10, 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 May 31.
When is the first frost in Wanship?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wanship typically arrives around Oct 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 19, so the watching starts about Sep 3 — about 146 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wanship?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wanship sees about 146 frost-free days — roughly May 10 through Oct 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 31 to Sep 19, about 111 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wanship?
The federal record around Wanship is a meaningful one — 98 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (51), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles 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 gardeners stretch the season in Wanship?
With about 146 frost-free days between hard freezes, Wanship 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 174 to 202 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 10 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Wanship's scale — its 5b band and its 146-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wanship'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 Wanship’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Wanship's own scale — its own ~146-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,233 acres it covers and 98 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wanship's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wanship's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 10 and Oct 3 and the ~146-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 98 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wanship, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wanship's boundary and the 3,233 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~146-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wanship's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Wanshiplydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wanship's 3,233 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 Wanship's 3,233 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wanship you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,233 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 Wanship-wide figureread your own land →