Ballard, UT 84076 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Ballard, UT, ZIP 84076
Around 05/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 264 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/29, about 130 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Ballard, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Ballard has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Ballard's last frost
05/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ballard compares
At roughly 130 frost-free days, Ballard places 38,392 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within UT, it ranks 247 of 344.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Ballard's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Ballard's dates instead of trusting one.