Mud Lake, ID 83425 Frost Dates
Mud Lake, ID: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/03, roughly 279 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/11, roughly 98 days after the last spring frost.
Mud Lake sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 2 weeks until Mud Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mud Lake's last frost
06/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mud Lake against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 98 frost-free days, Mud Lake places 39,763 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within ID, it ranks 251 of 320.
Learn more
Before leaning on 83425's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Mud Lake can differ from the 83425 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Mud Lake's frost date answer different questions.