Emerado, ND 58205 Frost Dates
58205, near Emerado, ND: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/16, about 261 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/27, roughly 133 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 Emerado, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Emerado's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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 Emerado's last frost
05/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Emerado against the rest of the dataset
Emerado's growing season runs about 133 days, ranking 38,107 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within ND, it ranks 279 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58205: local microclimates, on what one yard in Emerado can differ from the 58205 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4a and Emerado's frost date answer different questions.