Hurley, SD 57036 Frost Dates
57036, near Hurley, SD: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hurley in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Hurley's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/02 isn't a guarantee
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.
Hurley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 151 frost-free days, Hurley places 35,151 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SD, it ranks 156 of 378.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 57036: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hurley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hurley can differ from the 57036 normal.