Hunter, ND 58048 Frost Dates
58048, near Hunter, ND: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 4a (-30 to -25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Hunter, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hunter's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Hunter's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hunter against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Hunter places 33,125 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within ND, it ranks 4 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58048: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4a and Hunter's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hunter's dates instead of trusting one.