Granger, Wyoming, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, cranberry, cilantro, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Granger, 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 Granger 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 Granger — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Granger — the short answer
Granger, Wyoming: USDA zone 4b, about 130 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~130
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Granger's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Granger's 130-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Granger
Each reading below is measured for Granger itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGranger runs about 130 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
MeasuredGranger 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 Granger is in
Granger sits in the Wyoming Basin — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Granger's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sweetwater County.
What Grows in Granger
Every plant below cleared Granger's own zone 4b and its 130-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wyoming profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Granger?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 24 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Granger
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Granger. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 19-111-29dc 01Nitrate · 1900 ft
- BLACKS FORK GAS PLANTBrownfields · 2300 ft
- BLACKS FORK GAS PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 2300 ft
- GRANGER GAS PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 2300 ft
- Granger StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- T.G. Soda Ash, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Sewell's ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GENESIS ALKALI, LLC (GRANGER SITE)Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- Granger RMLRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WY Department of TransportationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Amoco Production CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 19-111-32 01Nitrate · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Granger'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 Granger.
Total Sites
35
within ~10 miles of Granger
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Granger
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Granger
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Granger, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Granger — Nitrate (14 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (3 sites). 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Granger
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 Granger average
Your land is one point inside Granger
Everything above resolves to Granger as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Granger Average
Granger Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Granger
- ●One soil character for all of Granger
- ●Frost dates read at Granger's scale: May 17 to Sep 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Granger's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Granger
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Granger, Wyoming — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Granger averages can't show:
We read public map data around Granger — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Granger average
How we know this about Granger
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 Granger’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 Granger
When does frost risk typically end in Granger?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Granger typically lands around May 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Granger?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Granger typically arrives around Sep 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 10, so the watching starts about Aug 25 — about 130 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Granger?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Granger sees about 130 frost-free days — roughly May 17 through Sep 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 7 to Sep 10, about 95 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Granger?
The federal record around Granger is light — 35 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (14), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Granger?
With about 130 frost-free days between hard freezes, Granger 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 158 to 186 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 17 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Granger's scale — its 4b band and its 130-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Granger'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 Granger’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Granger's own scale — its own ~130-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,656 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Granger's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Granger's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 17 and Sep 24 and the ~130-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Granger, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Granger's boundary and the 1,656 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~130-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Granger's own centroid, the Wyoming BasinUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Granger's 1,656 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sweetwater County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Granger's 1,656 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Granger you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,656 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Granger-wide figureread your own land →
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