Stites, ID 83552 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Stites, ID, ZIP 83552
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/11, about 162 frost-free days later.
Stites sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Stites has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Stites's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Stites compares
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Stites places 31,878 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within ID, it ranks 82 of 320.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Stites's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Stites's dates instead of trusting one.