FrostDateCheck

Centerville, SD 57014 Frost Dates

Centerville, SD: when does the frost end?

Zone 5a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.

Centerville sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 5 weeks until Centerville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Centerville's last frost

05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Centerville against the rest of the dataset

About 151 days separate Centerville's last and first frost, putting it 35,098 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SD, it ranks 147 of 378.

Learn more

Before leaning on 57014's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Centerville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Centerville can differ from the 57014 normal.