Ivins, UT 84782 Frost Dates
84782, near Ivins, UT: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 207 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Ivins, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ivins'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.
The actual range around Ivins's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ivins against the rest of the dataset
Ivins's growing season runs about 207 days, ranking 15,806 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within UT, it ranks 12 of 344.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 84782: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ivins's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ivins can differ from the 84782 normal.