Oak City, UT 84649 Frost Dates
Oak City, UT: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/16, about 261 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 137 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Oak City in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 5 weeks until Oak City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oak City against the rest of the dataset
About 137 days separate Oak City's last and first frost, putting it 37,559 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within UT, it ranks 230 of 344.
Learn more
Before leaning on 84649's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Oak City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Oak City can differ from the 84649 normal.