West Wood, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in West Wood, 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 West Wood lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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West Wood — the short answer
West Wood, Utah: USDA zone 6b, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 682 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 682 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 6b is West Wood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against West Wood's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in West Wood
Each reading below is measured for West Wood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWest Wood runs about 192 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredWest Wood sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 West Wood is in
West Wood sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at West Wood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Carbon County.
What Grows in West Wood
Every plant below cleared West Wood's own zone 6b and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in West Wood?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
What's on the federal record near West Wood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of West Wood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CASTLEVIEW HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CASTLEVIEW HOSPITALBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- CROSS CUT BREWERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PRICE RIVER WATER IMPROV. DIST.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- JOHN M. HOWA AND SONS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- NOTRE DAME SCHOOL / HOWA CONSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- RICCI INVESTMENT CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CARBON COUNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- EPH HENRY CONSTRUCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- BOOKCLIFF SALES, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CARBON COUNTY SHOPSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- C & D FUEL STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from West Wood'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 West Wood.
Total Sites
163
within ~10 miles of West Wood
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of West Wood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of West Wood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around West Wood, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 117 sites within ~10 miles of West Wood. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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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 West Wood average
Your land is one point inside West Wood
Everything above resolves to West Wood as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 682 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 West Wood Average
West Wood Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across West Wood
- ●One soil character for all of West Wood
- ●Frost dates read at West Wood's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not West Wood's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in West Wood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in West Wood, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around West Wood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the West Wood average
How we know this about West Wood
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 West Wood’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 West Wood
When does frost risk typically end in West Wood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in West Wood typically lands around Apr 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 May 7.
When is the first frost in West Wood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in West Wood typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in West Wood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, West Wood sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 11, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in West Wood?
The federal record around West Wood is a meaningful one — 163 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (117), 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 I protect my plants from frost in West Wood?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at West Wood's scale — its 6b band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of West Wood'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 West Wood’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at West Wood's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 682 acres it covers and 163 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- West Wood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- West Wood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 25 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 163 documented contamination sites on the federal record near West Wood, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- West Wood's boundary and the 682 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at West Wood's own centroid, the Colorado PlateausUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so West Wood's 682 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carbon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carbon 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 Carbon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among West Wood's 682 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of West Wood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 682 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 West Wood-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across UtahWest Wood sits outside our named growing regions, so Utah as a whole is its closest context here.
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