Scipio, UT 84656 Frost Dates
Scipio, UT: when does the frost end?
Around 05/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 267 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/25, roughly 122 days after the last spring frost.
Scipio sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 4 weeks until Scipio'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
05/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scipio against the rest of the dataset
About 122 days separate Scipio's last and first frost, putting it 38,978 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within UT, it ranks 283 of 344.
Learn more
Before leaning on 84656's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Scipio's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Scipio's dates instead of trusting one.