Lingle, Wyoming, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Lingle, 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 Lingle lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lingle — the short answer
Lingle, Wyoming: USDA zone 5a, about 150 days between hard freezes, across 196 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~150
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 196 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 5a is Lingle's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lingle's 150-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lingle
Each reading below is measured for Lingle itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLingle runs about 150 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
MeasuredLingle sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Lingle is in
Lingle sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lingle's own centroid rather than borrowed from Goshen County.
What Grows in Lingle
Every plant below cleared Lingle's own zone 5a and its 150-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wyoming profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lingle?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 2 — 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 Lingle
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lingle. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Wyrule CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- ROSE BROS EQUIPBrownfields · 650 ft
- Wendt ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- William G. HarrisUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Rose Brothers, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Town of LingleUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- H & T RANCHCAFO · 1400 ft
- LINGLE/FT. LARAMIE HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 1500 ft
- Ty's PitstopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Goshen County School District #1 - Lingle Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- TORRINGTON HIDE AND METALBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- 25-063-13bbd01Nitrate · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lingle'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 Lingle.
Total Sites
271
within ~10 miles of Lingle
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lingle
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lingle
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lingle, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lingle — CAFO (7 sites) and Nitrate (200 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Lingle
Everything above resolves to Lingle as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 196 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 Lingle Average
Lingle Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Lingle
- ●One soil character for all of Lingle
- ●Frost dates read at Lingle's scale: May 5 to Oct 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lingle's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lingle
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lingle, Wyoming — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lingle averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lingle — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Lingle
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 Lingle’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 Lingle
When does frost risk typically end in Lingle?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lingle typically lands around May 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Lingle?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lingle typically arrives around Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 18, so the watching starts about Sep 2 — about 150 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lingle?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lingle sees about 150 frost-free days — roughly May 5 through Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 26 to Sep 18, about 115 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lingle?
The federal record around Lingle is a meaningful one — 271 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (200), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lingle?
From about Sep 2 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lingle's scale — its 5a band and its 150-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lingle'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 Lingle’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lingle's own scale — its own ~150-day season between 28°F freezes, the 196 acres it covers and 271 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lingle's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lingle's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 5 and Oct 2 and the ~150-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 271 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lingle, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lingle's boundary and the 196 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~150-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lingle's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lingle's 196 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Goshen County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Goshen 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 Goshen County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lingle's 196 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lingle you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 196 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 Lingle-wide figureread your own land →
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