Gooding, ID 83330 Frost Dates
83330, near Gooding, ID: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/03, roughly 248 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Gooding, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gooding'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.
The actual range around Gooding's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gooding against the rest of the dataset
About 151 days separate Gooding's last and first frost, putting it 35,017 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within ID, it ranks 105 of 320.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 83330: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gooding's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gooding can differ from the 83330 normal.