Dazey, ND 58429 Frost Dates
58429, near Dazey, ND: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/13, about 258 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/26, roughly 136 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 Dazey, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dazey'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
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dazey against the rest of the dataset
Dazey's growing season runs about 136 days, ranking 37,816 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within ND, it ranks 250 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58429: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dazey's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dazey can differ from the 58429 normal.