Utah Soil Drainage Rankings

Utah

How well does the soil drain across Utah? We ranked every USDA survey area by the percentage of land classified as "well drained." Areas at the top of the list have soils where water moves through at a healthy rate — favorable for building, septic, and gardening. Areas at the bottom have more waterlogged or slowly-draining soils that may require engineered solutions.

The best-drained survey area is Carbon Area, Utah, Parts of Carbon and Emery Counties at 98% well-drained soils. The most drainage-challenged is Davis-Weber Area, Utah at 26%. 68% of the land in Davis-Weber Area, Utah is poorly drained, so building, septic and gardening there often call for drainage work, engineered septic designs or raised beds.

stays wet (poorly drained)in between, or not ratedwell drained

#	Survey Area	Well Drained	Poorly Drained	Most common class
1	Carbon Area, Utah, Parts of Carbon and Emery Counties	98%	0%	Well drained
2	Beaver County, Utah - Western Part	98%	1%	Well drained
3	Emery County, Utah, Eastern Part	98%	0%	Well drained
4	Iron-Washington Area, Utah, Parts of Iron, Kane, and Washington Counties	97%	0%	Well drained
5	San Juan County, Utah, Central Part	97%	1%	Well drained
6	Grand County, Utah - Central Part	97%	0%	Well drained
7	Fishlake National Forest, Utah, East Part - Parts of Sevier, Piute, Wayne and Sanpete Counties	96%	1%	Well drained
8	Summit Area, Utah, Parts of Summit, Salt Lake and Wasatch Counties	95%	3%	Well drained
9	Emery Area, Utah, Parts of Emery, Carbon, Grand, and Sevier Counties	95%	2%	Well drained
10	Manti-Lasal National Forest, Manti Division - Parts of Sanpete and Emery Counties	95%	0%	Well drained
11	Duchesne Area, Utah, Parts of Duchesne, Utah, and Wasatch Counties	94%	2%	Well drained
12	Canyonlands Area, Utah - Parts of Grand and San Juan Counties	93%	0%	Well drained
13	Uintah Area, Utah - Parts of Daggett, Grand and Uintah Counties	92%	2%	Well drained
14	Morgan Area, Utah - Morgan County and Part of Weber County	92%	1%	Well drained
15	Loa-Marysvale Area, Utah, Parts of Piute, Wayne, and Garfield Counties	91%	3%	Well drained
16	Henry Mountains Area, Utah, Parts of Garfield, Kane, and Wayne Counties	91%	0%	Well drained
17	San Juan Area, Utah	90%	0%	Well drained
18	Panguitch Area, Parts of Garfield, Iron, Kane, and Piute Counties, Utah	88%	2%	Well drained
19	Heber Valley Area, Utah - Parts of Wasatch and Utah Counties	88%	4%	Well drained
20	Capitol Reef National Park, Utah	88%	0%	Well drained
21	Washington County Area, Utah	87%	2%	Well drained
22	Sevier County Area, Utah	84%	5%	Well drained
23	Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah and Wyoming	83%	2%	Well drained
24	Millard County, Utah - Eastern Part	82%	3%	Well drained
25	Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Area, Parts of Kane and Garfield Counties, Utah	82%	0%	Well drained
26	Sanpete Valley Area, Utah, Parts of Utah and Sanpete Counties	77%	7%	Well drained
27	Beaver-Cove Fort Area, Utah	77%	1%	Well drained
28	Zion National Park, Utah	76%	0%	Well drained
29	San Juan County, Utah, Navajo Indian Reservation	73%	1%	Well drained
30	Dixie National Forest, Utah - Parts of Garfield, Washington, Iron, Kane and Wayne Counties	71%	0%	Well drained
31	West Millard-Juab Area, Utah, Parts of Millard and Juab Counties	70%	6%	Well drained
32	Rich County, Utah	69%	7%	Well drained
33	Fairfield-Nephi Area, Utah	69%	2%	Well drained
34	Box Elder County, Utah, Western Part	68%	25%	Well drained
35	Box Elder County, Utah, Eastern Part	63%	19%	Well drained
36	Canyonlands National Park, Utah	61%	2%	Well drained
37	Salt Lake Area, Utah	60%	27%	Well drained
38	Cache Valley Area, Parts of Cache and Box Elder Counties, Utah	59%	18%	Well drained
39	Utah County, Utah - Central Part	56%	32%	Well drained
40	Kane County Area, Utah	53%	0%	Well drained
41	Arches National Park, Utah	44%	0%	Excessively drained
42	Tooele Area, Utah - Tooele County and Parts of Box Elder, Davis and Juab Counties	42%	39%	Well drained
43	Delta Area, Utah - Part of Millard County	33%	42%	Well drained
44	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	33%	0%	Somewhat excessively drained
45	Davis-Weber Area, Utah	26%	68%	Poorly drained