Toquerville, UT 84774 Frost Dates
84774, near Toquerville, UT: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Toquerville in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Toquerville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Toquerville against the rest of the dataset
About 217 days separate Toquerville's last and first frost, putting it 13,520 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within UT, it ranks 9 of 344.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 84774: the frost range, on how to read the range around Toquerville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Toquerville can differ from the 84774 normal.