What USDA hardiness zone is Bingham County, Idaho?

Every ZIP code in Bingham County, Idaho is USDA hardiness zone 5b, from the USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map.

When is the last spring frost in Bingham County, Idaho?

The median last spring freeze runs May 5 – June 9 across the 5 NOAA weather stations serving Bingham County, Idaho, from NOAA 1991-2020 Climate Normals. Half of years freeze later than the median.

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Planting zones in Bingham County, Idaho

Every ZIP code in this county is USDA zone 5b — so unlike most of the places people look up, there is one right answer here and it holds wherever you are in the county.

USDA zone 5b The same in all 8 ZIP codes

ZIP codes 8 8 have a NOAA station within range

Weather stations 5 NOAA 1991–2020 normals, across 2,094 sq mi

Your ZIP code

Get the exact answer for your address

Everything above describes Bingham County, Idaho as a whole. Hardiness zones and freeze dates are published per ZIP code, so yours is exact — enter it and this page will tell you your zone, which NOAA station it comes from and how far away that station is.

The growing season in Bingham County is closing

Nothing in the 32-crop table still has time to mature here. The first fall freeze normally arrives September 11 – October 3 across the 5 NOAA stations serving this county .

Your next season already has a date

The first job of it is 🧅 Green Onions, start indoors, around March 10 – April 14 — counted back from a last spring freeze of May 5 – June 9 here.

Every spring date for your ZIP →

These are ranges across the whole county. The ZIP lookup above gives the dates from your own nearest station instead.

All 5 stations agreeAt least one station

Every one of the 5 NOAA stations serving this county counts June 9 – September 11 as growing season (94 days). Widening to any single station gives May 5 – October 3 (151 days).

That is a 57-day difference inside one county — which is why this page gives ranges rather than a single planting date. The ZIP lookup above resolves it to one station.

Your freeze dates

Last spring freeze May 5 – June 9

First fall freeze September 11 – October 3

Across the 5 NOAA stations serving this county. These are medians — half of years freeze later than the date shown — so treat the later end of each range as the cautious one.

The growing season runs 93–149 days depending which station you are nearest, as published by NOAA rather than computed from the dates above. Summer highs average 77–83.6 °F in June–August. Summer rain over the same months runs 1.8–3.1" across those 5 stations, against the rough inch a week — about 13 inches over the same 92 days — that a vegetable garden is usually reckoned to want. The middle station covers about 16% of it, so a summer garden here is watered rather than rained on. The inches are NOAA's published normals; the inch a week is a rule of thumb, and it takes no account of a 83 °F summer afternoon drying the soil faster than a cool one.

Every ZIP code in Bingham County

Zones are published per ZIP code, not per county, so this is the exact answer rather than the county's average. The station column is the nearest one to that ZIP code's centroid and how far away it is — the same figure the tools use, shown here so you can see which ZIP codes are well covered and which are reaching.

ZIP code	USDA zone	Nearest NOAA station	Distance
83203	5b	Ft Hall 1 Nne, ID	2.2 km
83210	5b	Aberdeen Exp Stn, ID	8.2 km
83218	5b	Blackfoot Fire Dept, ID	20.3 km
83221	5b	Blackfoot Fire Dept, ID	17.7 km
83236	5b	Idaho Falls 16 SE, ID	18.6 km
83262	5b	Aberdeen Exp Stn, ID	29.3 km
83274	5b	Idaho Falls Fanning FLD, ID	18.8 km
83277	5b	Aberdeen Exp Stn, ID	17.8 km

ZIP-code positions are area centroids, so a large rural ZIP code's listed distance is measured from the middle of its area rather than from any particular address in it.

When to start seeds in Bingham County

Every date below is anchored on the last spring freeze at each station and reported as a range across all 5 of them, because no one station speaks for the county.

Crop	Job	When	Offset
🧅 Green Onions	Start indoors	March 10 – April 14	8 wk before
🌶️ Peppers	Start indoors	March 10 – April 14	8 wk before
🥦 Broccoli	Start indoors	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🥬 Cabbage	Start indoors	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🥬 Collards	Start indoors	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🥬 Kale	Start indoors	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🥬 Leaf Lettuce	Start indoors	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🫛 Peas	Direct sow	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🥬 Spinach	Direct sow	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🍠 Sweet Potato	Start indoors	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🍅 Tomatoes	Start indoors	March 24 – April 28	6 wk before
🥬 Bok Choy	Start indoors	March 31 – May 5	5 wk before
🥬 Kohlrabi	Start indoors	March 31 – May 5	5 wk before
🥬 Swiss Chard	Start indoors	March 31 – May 5	5 wk before
🥬 Arugula	Direct sow	April 7 – May 12	4 wk before
🥬 Baby Salad Greens	Direct sow	April 7 – May 12	4 wk before
🥕 Beets	Direct sow	April 7 – May 12	4 wk before
🧅 Green Onions	Direct sow	April 7 – May 12	4 wk before
🥬 Mustard Greens	Direct sow	April 7 – May 12	4 wk before
🌶️ Okra	Start indoors	April 7 – May 12	4 wk before
🌱 Radishes	Direct sow	April 7 – May 12	4 wk before
🥔 Turnips	Direct sow	April 7 – May 12	4 wk before
🥬 Cabbage	Set out	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥕 Carrots	Direct sow	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥬 Collards	Direct sow	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥬 Collards	Set out	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥒 Cucumbers	Start indoors	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🧅 Green Onions	Set out	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥬 Kale	Direct sow	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥬 Kale	Set out	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥬 Kohlrabi	Direct sow	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥬 Kohlrabi	Set out	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥬 Leaf Lettuce	Direct sow	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🎃 Pumpkins	Start indoors	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🎃 Summer Squash	Start indoors	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🎃 Winter Squash	Start indoors	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥒 Zucchini	Start indoors	April 14 – May 19	3 wk before
🥬 Bok Choy	Direct sow	April 21 – May 26	2 wk before
🥬 Bok Choy	Set out	April 21 – May 26	2 wk before
🥦 Broccoli	Set out	April 21 – May 26	2 wk before
🌿 Cilantro	Direct sow	April 21 – May 26	2 wk before
🥬 Leaf Lettuce	Set out	April 21 – May 26	2 wk before
🥬 Swiss Chard	Direct sow	April 21 – May 26	2 wk before
🥬 Swiss Chard	Set out	April 21 – May 26	2 wk before
🌿 Dill	Direct sow	April 28 – June 2	1 wk before
🫘 Bush Beans	Direct sow	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🥒 Cucumbers	Set out	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🎃 Pumpkins	Direct sow	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🎃 Pumpkins	Set out	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🎃 Summer Squash	Direct sow	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🎃 Summer Squash	Set out	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🌽 Sweet Corn	Direct sow	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🍅 Tomatoes	Set out	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🎃 Winter Squash	Direct sow	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🎃 Winter Squash	Set out	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🥒 Zucchini	Direct sow	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🥒 Zucchini	Set out	May 12 – June 16	1 wk after
🥒 Cucumbers	Direct sow	May 19 – June 23	2 wk after
🌶️ Okra	Direct sow	May 19 – June 23	2 wk after
🌶️ Okra	Set out	May 19 – June 23	2 wk after
🌶️ Peppers	Set out	May 19 – June 23	2 wk after
🫘 Southern Peas	Direct sow	May 19 – June 23	2 wk after
🍠 Sweet Potato	Set out	May 19 – June 23	2 wk after

Offsets are published guidance; the dates they land on are computed from measured NOAA normals. The seed-starting tool does this for your own ZIP code and counts the days.

What lives through a zone 5b winter

Of 74 perennial edibles, 48 come through a zone 5b winter — and 0 fail here for being too warm rather than too cold, needing more winter chill than this county gets or more heat than they tolerate. Among the ones that work: Cranberry, Honeyberry, Lingonberry, Apple, Aronia, Black Currant, Elderberry, Gooseberry.

Hardiness ranges are a judgement, published by growers rather than measured; the zone they are compared against is measured. On a warm-end verdict, check with your local extension service — a coastal zone 8 and an inland zone 8 are not the same summer.

Cautious — shortens the seasonMedian across stationsOptimistic

Last spring freeze: Plan to June 26 to be careful. Median May 5 – June 9 across 5 stations; April 23 is the optimistic end.
First fall freeze: Plan to August 27 to be careful. Median September 11 – October 3 across 5 stations; October 18 is the optimistic end.

NOAA publishes these as probabilities, not averages — the middle figure is a median, so half of years fall either side of it. The cautious end is the 10% tail: in roughly nine years in ten the freeze falls on the safe side of it.

The 5 stations behind these numbers

All 5 NOAA stations whose normals this page quotes, spanning about 62 km north to south. Every one is named with its identifier in the station list below — this page does not single one out, because no one station speaks for a whole county.

A relative sketch, not a map with a projection: longitude is adjusted for latitude so the shape is not stretched, and there is no basemap. For the one station nearest a specific address, with its real distance, use the ZIP lookup above.

These are the stations this county's ZIP codes actually cite as nearest — not a claim that each one sits inside its boundary, since a rural ZIP legitimately reaches over it. Every figure above comes from them, and each is named so you can check it.

Station	NOAA ID	Last spring freeze	First fall freeze	Season
Aberdeen Exp Stn, ID	USC00100010	May 21	September 20	118 days
Blackfoot Fire Dept, ID	USC00100915	May 5	October 3	149 days
Ft Hall 1 Nne, ID	USC00103297	May 20	September 20	119 days
Idaho Falls 16 SE, ID	USC00104456	June 9	September 11	93 days
Idaho Falls Fanning FLD, ID	USW00024145	May 23	September 20	114 days

These are medians, not averages — NOAA publishes freeze dates as a probability distribution, and half of years freeze later than the date shown.

Your own ZIP

Work out your own dates

This page describes a whole county. Every tool below answers for one ZIP code, which is the grain the underlying data is published at.

Other places to compare

Bingham County sits in Idaho. That page carries the whole state's zone spread, its metro areas, and every other county in it with a page here.

More of Idaho

Counties with the same zones — 5b

Matched on the exact zone set, not a dominant zone, so the winter answer on these pages really is the same one as here.

Gear

If you want to act on this

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Trunk wrapZone 5b is cold enough that winter sun on a young trunk does more damage than the cold does.
Row cover and frost clothThe season here closes at the first fall freeze dated above — a cover buys back some of those days at the end.
MulchFor the perennials nearest their cold limit in zone 5b, where an insulated crown is what decides whether they come back.

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Sources

Where these numbers come from

Hardiness zones are the USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, published per ZIP code by PRISM at Oregon State. Freeze dates and growing-season lengths are NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, taken per station and cited above by name and NOAA ID.

County boundaries come from the Census ZCTA-to-county relation, which is what places each ZIP code — and which treats parishes, boroughs and census areas as county equivalents. No station is chosen to represent this county: every range above is taken across all of them and the count is stated, because picking one would be a judgement dressed as a measurement.