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Leeds, UT 84791 Frost Dates

Leeds, UT: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 207 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Leeds, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 10 weeks until Leeds's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Leeds'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.

Leeds against the rest of the dataset

Leeds's growing season runs about 207 days, ranking 15,855 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within UT, it ranks 16 of 344.

Learn more

Before leaning on 84791's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Leeds's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Leeds's dates instead of trusting one.