Provo, UT 84606 Frost Dates
Provo, UT: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Provo sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Provo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Provo's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Provo against the rest of the dataset
Provo's growing season runs about 185 days, ranking 23,027 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within UT, it ranks 82 of 344.
Learn more
Before leaning on 84606's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Provo can differ from the 84606 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Provo's frost date answer different questions.