Carpio, ND 58725 Frost Dates
58725, near Carpio, ND: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/11, about 256 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 138 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 Carpio, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Carpio'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carpio against the rest of the dataset
Carpio's growing season runs about 138 days, ranking 37,469 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within ND, it ranks 200 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58725: the frost range, on how to read the range around Carpio's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Carpio can differ from the 58725 normal.