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Elsinore, UT 84724 Frost Dates

84724, near Elsinore, UT: the frost window

Zone 6a

Around 05/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 266 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/24, roughly 125 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Elsinore, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Elsinore's growing season runs out in roughly 4 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

The actual range around Elsinore's last frost

05/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Elsinore against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 125 frost-free days, Elsinore places 38,779 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within UT, it ranks 264 of 344.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 84724: the frost range, on how to read the range around Elsinore's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Elsinore can differ from the 84724 normal.