Meeteetse, Wyoming, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, cilantro, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Meeteetse, 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 Meeteetse lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Meeteetse — the short answer
Meeteetse, Wyoming: USDA zone 4b, about 142 days between hard freezes, across 950 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 13
- 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
- ~142
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 950 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 Meeteetse's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Meeteetse's 142-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Meeteetse
Each reading below is measured for Meeteetse itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMeeteetse runs about 142 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
MeasuredMeeteetse 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 Meeteetse is in
Meeteetse sits in the Wyoming Basin — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Meeteetse's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Park County is mostly Middle Rockies. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Meeteetse
Every plant below cleared Meeteetse's own zone 4b and its 142-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wyoming profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Meeteetse?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 13 (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. Short seasons reward decisiveness — quick-maturing varieties late, hardy greens under cover, and next year’s garlic in the ground before it closes.
What's on the federal record near Meeteetse
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Meeteetse. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Meeteetse ConocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Vision Quest MotelUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Park School District #16Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WEA MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Little Buffalo Basin FieldUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Willow Draw FacilityUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Texaco-Spring Creek UnitUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Fourbear FieldUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Lewis and Son, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- McIntosh Oil Co.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Barling GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 49-100-34dbd01Nitrate · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Meeteetse'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 Meeteetse.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Meeteetse
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Meeteetse
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Meeteetse, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 20 sites within ~10 miles of Meeteetse. 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 Meeteetse
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 Meeteetse
Everything above resolves to Meeteetse as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 950 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 Meeteetse Average
Meeteetse Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Meeteetse
- ●One soil character for all of Meeteetse
- ●Frost dates read at Meeteetse's scale: May 13 to Oct 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Meeteetse's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Meeteetse
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Meeteetse, Wyoming — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Meeteetse averages can't show:
We read public map data around Meeteetse — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Meeteetse average
How we know this about Meeteetse
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 Meeteetse’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 Meeteetse
When does frost risk typically end in Meeteetse?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Meeteetse typically lands around May 13, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Meeteetse?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Meeteetse 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 142 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Meeteetse?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Meeteetse sees about 142 frost-free days — roughly May 13 through Oct 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 3 to Sep 18, about 107 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Meeteetse?
The federal record around Meeteetse is light — 33 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (20), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Meeteetse?
With about 142 frost-free days between hard freezes, Meeteetse 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 170 to 198 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 13 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Meeteetse's scale — its 4b band and its 142-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Meeteetse'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 Meeteetse’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Meeteetse's own scale — its own ~142-day season between 28°F freezes, the 950 acres it covers and 33 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Meeteetse's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Meeteetse's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 13 and Oct 2 and the ~142-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 33 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Meeteetse, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Meeteetse's boundary and the 950 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~142-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Meeteetse sits in the Wyoming Basin — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Meeteetse's 950 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Park County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Park 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 Park County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Meeteetse's 950 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Meeteetse you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 950 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 Meeteetse-wide figureread your own land →
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