Scranton, ND 58653 Frost Dates
58653, near Scranton, ND: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/24, roughly 269 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/18, roughly 115 days after the last spring frost.
Scranton 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
Scranton's growing season runs out in roughly 3 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
05/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scranton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 115 frost-free days, Scranton places 39,338 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within ND, it ranks 402 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58653: the frost range, on how to read the range around Scranton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Scranton can differ from the 58653 normal.