Esmond, ND 58332 Frost Dates
58332, near Esmond, ND: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/11, about 256 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 138 days after the last spring frost.
Esmond sits in USDA Zone 4a (-30 to -25°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Esmond'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 Esmond's last frost
05/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Esmond against the rest of the dataset
Esmond's growing season runs about 138 days, ranking 37,480 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within ND, it ranks 203 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58332: the frost range, on how to read the range around Esmond's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Esmond can differ from the 58332 normal.