Canton City (Hensel), ND 58241 Frost Dates
58241, near Canton City (Hensel), ND: the frost window
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 139 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Canton City (Hensel) in Zone 4a (-30 to -25°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
Canton City (Hensel)'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Canton City (Hensel) against the rest of the dataset
About 139 days separate Canton City (Hensel)'s last and first frost, putting it 37,331 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within ND, it ranks 180 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58241: the frost range, on how to read the range around Canton City (Hensel)'s dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Canton City (Hensel) can differ from the 58241 normal.