Pelican, AK 99825 Frost Dates
99825, near Pelican, AK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Pelican, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pelican's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/04 isn't a guarantee
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pelican against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Pelican places 30,239 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AK, it ranks 19 of 269.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 99825: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Pelican's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pelican's dates instead of trusting one.