Noise Levels in Fruit Heights, UT | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
54 dBA
Average noise across Fruit Heights
Quiet office to normal conversation
1,639
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
26% of Fruit Heights residents
71 dBA
Loudest residential point
City bus interior
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Fruit Heights at 100-meter resolution, combining road, aviation, and rail sources. Green areas measure below 45 dBA. Orange and red exceed the EPA's 55 dBA outdoor threshold linked to long-term health effects. Use the layer toggles to view each source on its own or all together.
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What the numbers sound like
30 dBAWhisper
40 dBASoft rainfall
45 dBAQuiet suburban street at night
50 dBAQuiet office
55 dBAEPA outdoor threshold: light traffic 100 ft away
60 dBANormal conversation an arm's length away
65 dBABusy restaurant
70 dBAHighway traffic 50 ft away
80 dBACity bus interior
Population Above the EPA Outdoor Threshold
The EPA's 55 dBA outdoor reference level is a common benchmark for residential noise exposure, especially for activity interference, annoyance, and long-term community noise concerns. About 1,639 Fruit Heights residents, or 25.7%, live above that level. By land area, 35.7% of Fruit Heights is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Fruit Heights residents, grouped by direction from the center of Fruit Heights. Northern Fruit Heights carries the highest population-weighted average; Eastern Fruit Heights carries the lowest. Just 27% of residents in Eastern Fruit Heights live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, roughly the same as the share in Northern Fruit Heights.
Central Fruit Heights
54.2 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
38% of people above 55 dBA
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Eastern Fruit Heights
53.1 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
27% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Fruit Heights
54.4 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
25% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Fruit Heights
53.2 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
19% of people above 55 dBA
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Western Fruit Heights
53.4 dBA · Moderate-loud
Quiet office to normal conversation
38% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Fruit Heights sounds about 9% louder than Eastern Fruit Heights to the human ear, a 1.3 dBA gap. Every 10 dBA roughly doubles perceived loudness. Within any of these directions, two homes a quarter mile apart can still differ by 10 or more dBA depending on how close they sit to a major highway.
How far back from US Hwy 89 do you need to be?
US Hwy 89 produces an estimated 68 dBA at its loudest centerline points. Noise drops logarithmically with distance, with the exact rate depending on what's between you and the road. Tree cover, walls, terrain, and pavement type all matter. At roughly a quarter mile back, traffic fades into the noise level of a soft rainfall.
At source
68 dBA
Highway traffic 50 ft away
165 ft
55 dBA
Quiet office to normal conversation
330 ft
47 dBA
Quiet office
660 ft
39 dBA
Soft rainfall
¼ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 11% of Fruit Heights sits under tree canopy (lighter than most cities) and roughly 28% is impervious surface like pavement and rooftops. Both are folded into the per-place decay rate above. Heavier canopy pulls noise down faster with distance; impervious surfaces slow the drop.
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Airport Noise
Salt Lake City International (SLC) sits south of Fruit Heights. The U.S. Department of Transportation measures aviation noise around this airport directly, and the model uses those federal measurements rather than synthetic predictions.
Blocks under the approach and departure paths carry combined road-plus-aviation noise, with some exceeding 75 dBA on the map's Overall layer. Blocks on the opposite side of Fruit Heights, particularly to the north, show no measurable aviation contribution. Use the Aviation toggle on the map above to isolate the airport's footprint.
How Noise Is Distributed Across Fruit Heights
The bar chart below shows the share of Fruit Heights residents in each noise band. About 74% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 9% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Fruit Heights Compares
Fruit Heights sits at the quieter end of the spectrum. Below: how Fruit Heights's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with West Bountiful, South Weber, Riverdale, and Harrisville.
Average noise level (dBA)
Fruit Heights's 53.7 dBA pop-weighted average is at the quieter end of the spectrum. Utah as a whole averages 53.1 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Fruit Heights because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 25.7% of Fruit Heights residents live in blocks where outdoor levels exceed the EPA's 55 dBA threshold. That's in the middle of its peer group. Measured by land area instead, 35.7% of Fruit Heights's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Utah average of 25.8% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to Fruit Heights
Distance from highways matters more than the neighborhood name. Two homes in the same zip code can differ by 20 dBA if one sits 100 meters from US Hwy 89 and the other 500 meters away. The model captures this at 100-meter resolution, so noise exposure changes block by block.
Tree canopy can help reduce modeled noise exposure. Roughly 11% of Fruit Heights is under tree cover (lighter than most cities), and the dominant land cover is low-intensity developed land. Both are measured from federal USDA Forest Service and USGS satellite imagery at 30-meter resolution. Streets with 60% or higher canopy show 3 to 5 dBA lower noise than comparable streets with bare ground or pavement, which is why the per-place decay rate above already accounts for it.
Airport noise is directional. Salt Lake City International's approach paths concentrate aviation noise to the south. Neighborhoods to the north of downtown show no measurable contribution from the airport.
Sources & Methodology
The BestNeighborhood noise model is calibrated against nearly one million federal ground-truth measurements across four states. Road noise is computed from segment-level federal traffic data and propagated outward using physics-based acoustic decay, with attenuation rates that depend on the surrounding land cover.
All inputs are published federal datasets. Block-level noise is computed by combining road, rail, and aviation sound sources in the energy domain, the same physics used in professional environmental noise assessments. Read the full methodology.
