Eagle, AK 99780 Frost Dates
Eagle, AK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 06/03, about 279 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 08/27, roughly 79 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Eagle in Zone 2a (-50 to -45°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 any day now until Eagle's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eagle's last frost
06/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 07/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eagle against the rest of the dataset
About 79 days separate Eagle's last and first frost, putting it 40,063 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AK, it ranks 244 of 269.
Learn more
Before leaning on 99780's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Eagle's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Eagle can differ from the 99780 normal.