Pelican, AK 99832 Frost Dates
99832, 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 30,240 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AK, it ranks 20 of 269.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 99832: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pelican can differ from the 99832 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Pelican's frost date answer different questions.