Ballard, UT 84026 Frost Dates
84026, near Ballard, UT: the frost window
Around 05/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 264 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 135 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ballard in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ballard's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ballard against the rest of the dataset
Ballard's growing season runs about 135 days, ranking 37,888 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within UT, it ranks 235 of 344.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 84026: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ballard's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ballard can differ from the 84026 normal.