Acequia, ID 83350 Frost Dates
Acequia, ID: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/16, roughly 261 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 136 days after the last spring frost.
Acequia sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 5 weeks until Acequia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Acequia's last frost
05/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 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.
Acequia against the rest of the dataset
About 136 days separate Acequia's last and first frost, putting it 37,801 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within ID, it ranks 158 of 320.
Learn more
Before leaning on 83350's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Acequia can differ from the 83350 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Acequia's frost date answer different questions.