Oakes, ND 58474 Frost Dates
Oakes, ND: when does the frost end?
Around 05/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 254 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 141 days after the last spring frost.
Oakes 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
With roughly 4 weeks until Oakes's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 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.
Oakes against the rest of the dataset
About 141 days separate Oakes's last and first frost, putting it 36,917 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within ND, it ranks 116 of 405.
Learn more
Before leaning on 58474's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Oakes's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Oakes can differ from the 58474 normal.