Lake Andes, SD 57356 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lake Andes, SD, ZIP 57356
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/13, about 165 frost-free days later.
Lake Andes 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5a around Lake Andes has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lake Andes's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lake Andes compares
About 165 days separate Lake Andes's last and first frost, putting it 30,671 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SD, it ranks 7 of 378.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Lake Andes's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Andes's dates instead of trusting one.