East Hope, ID 83836 Frost Dates
East Hope, ID: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 141 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts East Hope in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 4 weeks until East Hope's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around East Hope's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Hope against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 141 frost-free days, East Hope places 36,991 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within ID, it ranks 151 of 320.
Learn more
Before leaning on 83836's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and East Hope's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around East Hope's dates instead of trusting one.