Nuiqsut, AK 99789 Frost Dates
99789, near Nuiqsut, AK: the frost window
The NOAA station nearest to 99789 does not report a usable frost-date normal for either event, so no last-frost or first-frost figure is shown here. The USDA hardiness zone below is still real: Zone 2a (-50 to -45°F average annual minimum).
Nuiqsut against the rest of the dataset
Nuiqsut's growing season runs about 51 days, ranking 40,215 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AK, it ranks 263 of 269.
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Two guides worth reading on 99789: local microclimates, on what one yard in Nuiqsut can differ from the 99789 normal, and the methodology, on exactly which NOAA and USDA figures feed 99789's numbers.