Hanksville, UT 84775 Frost Dates
Hanksville, UT: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hanksville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Hanksville'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
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hanksville against the rest of the dataset
About 149 days separate Hanksville's last and first frost, putting it 35,584 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within UT, it ranks 205 of 344.
Learn more
Before leaning on 84775's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hanksville can differ from the 84775 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Hanksville's frost date answer different questions.