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Cleveland, ND 58424 Frost Dates

58424, near Cleveland, ND: the frost window

Zone 4b

Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.

Cleveland sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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

Cleveland'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.

The actual range around Cleveland's last frost

05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Cleveland against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 150 frost-free days, Cleveland places 35,458 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within ND, it ranks 42 of 405.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 58424: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cleveland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cleveland can differ from the 58424 normal.