Leeds, ND 58346 Frost Dates
58346, near Leeds, ND: the frost window
Around 05/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 260 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/27, roughly 133 days after the last spring frost.
Leeds 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
Leeds'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/15 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 05/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leeds against the rest of the dataset
About 133 days separate Leeds's last and first frost, putting it 38,115 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within ND, it ranks 285 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58346: the frost range, on how to read the range around Leeds's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Leeds can differ from the 58346 normal.