New Town, ND 58757 Frost Dates
58757, near New Town, ND: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/21, roughly 266 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/23, roughly 124 days after the last spring frost.
New Town 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
New Town'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
05/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/09 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.
New Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 124 frost-free days, New Town places 38,834 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within ND, it ranks 364 of 405.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 58757: local microclimates, on what one yard in New Town can differ from the 58757 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4a and New Town's frost date answer different questions.