Woodland, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Woodland, 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 Woodland 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 Woodland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodland — the short answer
Woodland, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 126 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~126
- 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 5b is Woodland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodland's 126-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodland
Each reading below is measured for Woodland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodland runs about 126 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
MeasuredWoodland 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 Woodland is in
Woodland sits in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Woodland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Summit County.
What Grows in Woodland
Every plant below cleared Woodland's own zone 5b and its 126-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodland?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a season this compact, fast finishers and cold-hardy greens do the late work, and garlic tucked in before the freeze repays you next summer.
Documented around Woodland
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Woodland, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- (D- 3- 6) 2dbb- 1Nitrate · 1600 ft
- WOODLAND CASH STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ENNIS GIBBSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- (D- 2- 6)34dcd- 1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- (D- 3- 6) 4aad- 1Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- E DEVOS TAP AT WELL SOURCE 13ANitrate · 1.6 mi
- (D- 2- 6)27ccc- 1Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- (D- 2- 6)33cab- 1Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- (D- 2- 6)25caa- 1Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- (D- 2- 6)25dba- 1Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- (D- 2- 6)26aad- 1Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- (D- 2- 6)26abb- 1Nitrate · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodland'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 Woodland.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodland, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 88 sites within ~10 miles of Woodland. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Woodland
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 Woodland average
Your land is one point inside Woodland
Everything above resolves to Woodland 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 Woodland Average
Woodland Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Woodland
- ●One soil character for all of Woodland
- ●Frost dates read at Woodland's scale: May 24 to Sep 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodland's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodland, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodland average
How we know this about Woodland
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 Woodland’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 Woodland
When does frost risk typically end in Woodland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland typically lands around May 24, 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 Jun 14.
When is the first frost in Woodland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland typically arrives around Sep 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 13, so the watching starts about Aug 28 — about 126 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodland sees about 126 frost-free days — roughly May 24 through Sep 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 14 to Sep 13, about 91 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodland?
The federal record around Woodland is a meaningful one — 117 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (88), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Woodland?
With about 126 frost-free days between hard freezes, Woodland 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 154 to 182 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 24 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Woodland's scale — its 5b band and its 126-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodland'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 Woodland’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodland's own scale — its own ~126-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,325 acres it covers and 117 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 24 and Sep 27 and the ~126-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 117 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodland, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodland's boundary and the 1,325 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~126-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodland's own centroid, the Wasatch and Uinta MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodlandlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodland's 1,325 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 Woodland's 1,325 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,325 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 Woodland-wide figureread your own land →