Pringle, SD 57773 Frost Dates
Pringle, SD: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/15, about 260 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 133 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pringle in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
With roughly 5 weeks until Pringle's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pringle's last frost
05/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pringle against the rest of the dataset
About 133 days separate Pringle's last and first frost, putting it 38,149 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SD, it ranks 362 of 378.
Learn more
Before leaning on 57773's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pringle's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pringle can differ from the 57773 normal.