Carey, ID 83348 Frost Dates
83348, near Carey, ID: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 06/16, about 292 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/09, roughly 85 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Carey, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Carey's growing season runs out in roughly 2 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 Carey's last frost
06/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 06/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carey against the rest of the dataset
About 85 days separate Carey's last and first frost, putting it 39,990 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within ID, it ranks 278 of 320.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 83348: local microclimates, on what one yard in Carey can differ from the 83348 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Carey's frost date answer different questions.