FrostDateCheck

South Jordan, UT 84095 Frost Dates

South Jordan, UT: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts South Jordan in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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

With roughly 6 weeks until South Jordan's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around South Jordan's last frost

05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

South Jordan against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 159 frost-free days, South Jordan places 32,578 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within UT, it ranks 159 of 344.

Learn more

Before leaning on 84095's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around South Jordan's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in South Jordan can differ from the 84095 normal.