Clearfield, UT 84056 Frost Dates
84056, near Clearfield, UT: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Clearfield, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Clearfield's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clearfield against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Clearfield's last and first frost, putting it 28,165 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within UT, it ranks 133 of 344.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 84056: the frost range, on how to read the range around Clearfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Clearfield can differ from the 84056 normal.