Edna Bay, AK 99927 Frost Dates
Edna Bay, AK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Edna Bay, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Edna Bay'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
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edna Bay against the rest of the dataset
Edna Bay's growing season runs about 187 days, ranking 22,651 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AK, it ranks 9 of 269.
Learn more
Before leaning on 99927's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Edna Bay can differ from the 99927 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Edna Bay's frost date answer different questions.