Urie, Wyoming, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Urie, 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 Urie lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Urie — the short answer
Urie, Wyoming: USDA zone 5a, about 133 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~133
- 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 5a is Urie's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Urie's 133-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Urie
Each reading below is measured for Urie itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredUrie runs about 133 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
MeasuredUrie 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 Urie is in
Urie sits in the Wyoming Basin — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Urie's own centroid rather than borrowed from Uinta County.
What Grows in Urie
Every plant below cleared Urie's own zone 5a and its 133-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wyoming profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Urie?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 28 — 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 Urie
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Urie. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Old West Auto SalesUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Feehan Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 15-115-12add01Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- AYRES BAKER-POST & POLEToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- 16-115-34acd01Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- GASPRO SERVICESBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- 16-114-31add01Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- BLACKS FORK TIMERBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- Town ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Maverik Country Store # 274Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Maverik Country Store # 136Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Birch Construction CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Urie'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 Urie.
Total Sites
83
within ~10 miles of Urie
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Urie
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Urie
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Urie, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 44 sites within ~10 miles of Urie. 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 Urie
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 Urie
Everything above resolves to Urie 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 Urie Average
Urie Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Urie
- ●One soil character for all of Urie
- ●Frost dates read at Urie's scale: May 18 to Sep 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Urie's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Urie
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Urie, Wyoming — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Urie averages can't show:
We read public map data around Urie — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Urie average
How we know this about Urie
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 Urie’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 Urie
When does frost risk typically end in Urie?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Urie typically lands around May 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Urie?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Urie typically arrives around Sep 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 14, so the watching starts about Aug 29 — about 133 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Urie?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Urie sees about 133 frost-free days — roughly May 18 through Sep 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 8 to Sep 14, about 98 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Urie?
The federal record around Urie shows 83 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (44), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles 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 gardeners stretch the season in Urie?
With about 133 frost-free days between hard freezes, Urie 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 161 to 189 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 18 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Urie's scale — its 5a band and its 133-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Urie'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 Urie’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Urie's own scale — its own ~133-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,141 acres it covers and 83 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Urie's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Urie's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 18 and Sep 28 and the ~133-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 83 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Urie, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Urie's boundary and the 1,141 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~133-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Urie's own centroid, the Wyoming BasinUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Urie's 1,141 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Uinta County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Uinta 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 Uinta County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Urie's 1,141 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Urie you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,141 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Urie-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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