Reubens, ID 83548 Frost Dates
83548, near Reubens, ID: the frost window
Around 05/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 268 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/25, roughly 121 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 Reubens, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Reubens's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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 Reubens's last frost
05/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Reubens against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 121 frost-free days, Reubens places 39,063 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within ID, it ranks 215 of 320.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 83548: local microclimates, on what one yard in Reubens can differ from the 83548 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Reubens's frost date answer different questions.