Kake, AK 99830 Frost Dates
Kake, AK: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Kake sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Kake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kake against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Kake places 26,598 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AK, it ranks 12 of 269.
Learn more
Before leaning on 99830's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Kake's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Kake's dates instead of trusting one.