Taylor, ND 58656 Frost Dates
Taylor, ND: when does the frost end?
Around 05/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 268 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/20, roughly 119 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 Taylor, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 3 weeks until Taylor's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Taylor's last frost
05/23 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 06/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Taylor against the rest of the dataset
Taylor's growing season runs about 119 days, ranking 39,177 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within ND, it ranks 397 of 405.
Learn more
Before leaning on 58656's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4a and Taylor's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Taylor's dates instead of trusting one.