Yoder, WY 82244 Frost Dates
Yoder, WY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/24, roughly 130 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Yoder, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 4 weeks until Yoder's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Yoder's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yoder against the rest of the dataset
About 130 days separate Yoder's last and first frost, putting it 38,423 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WY, it ranks 66 of 192.
Learn more
Before leaning on 82244's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Yoder's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Yoder's dates instead of trusting one.