Deaver, Wyoming, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Deaver, 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 Deaver lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Deaver — the short answer
Deaver, Wyoming: USDA zone 4b, about 163 days between hard freezes, across 648 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~163
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 648 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 4b is Deaver's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Deaver's 163-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Deaver
Each reading below is measured for Deaver itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDeaver runs about 163 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
MeasuredDeaver sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
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 Deaver is in
Deaver sits in the Wyoming Basin — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Deaver's own centroid rather than borrowed from Big Horn County.
What Grows in Deaver
Every plant below cleared Deaver's own zone 4b and its 163-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wyoming profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Deaver?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Deaver
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Deaver. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Rocky Mountain Middle SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- Trails WayUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Frannie 1-2-3 StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 57-097-26dad01Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- Ralph CampbellUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- WYOMING LIME PRODUCERSToxics Release Inventory · 5.7 mi
- 58-097-31bac01Nitrate · 5.7 mi
- Sage Creek Refining Company, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- Cowley ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- Big Horn County Road and BridgeUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- NORTH BIG HORN COUNTY AIRPORT-COWLEYBrownfields · 6.2 mi
- Donkey Creek StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Deaver'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 Deaver.
Total Sites
55
within ~10 miles of Deaver
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Deaver
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Deaver
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Deaver, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Deaver. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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).
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Deaver
Everything above resolves to Deaver as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 648 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 Deaver Average
Deaver Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Deaver
- ●One soil character for all of Deaver
- ●Frost dates read at Deaver's scale: Apr 29 to Oct 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Deaver's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Deaver
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Deaver, Wyoming — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Deaver — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Deaver average
How we know this about Deaver
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 Deaver’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 Deaver
When does frost risk typically end in Deaver?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Deaver typically lands around Apr 29, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Deaver?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Deaver typically arrives around Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 25, so the watching starts about Sep 9 — about 163 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Deaver?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Deaver sees about 163 frost-free days — roughly Apr 29 through Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 20 to Sep 25, about 128 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Deaver?
The federal record around Deaver shows 55 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (27), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Deaver?
From about Sep 9 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Deaver's scale — its 4b band and its 163-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Deaver'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 Deaver’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Deaver's own scale — its own ~163-day season between 28°F freezes, the 648 acres it covers and 55 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Deaver's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Deaver's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 29 and Oct 9 and the ~163-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 55 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Deaver, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Deaver's boundary and the 648 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~163-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Deaver's own centroid, the Wyoming BasinUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Deaver's 648 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Big Horn County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Big Horn County
- The growing challenges every Wyoming grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Wyoming
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Big Horn County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Deaver's 648 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Deaver you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 648 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 Deaver-wide figureread your own land →
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