When is the last frost where you live?
NOAA tracked 30 years of freeze dates at your nearest weather station. This is the typical last spring frost and first fall frost derived from that record, given as a range, not a single guessed date — and not a substitute for your own yard's microclimate, which can run days or weeks off the station reading.
How to read the three dates
- Early (10% of years). The riskiest date to plant tender crops by, frost has still hit this late in roughly one year out of ten.
- Typical (50% of years). The median date this site leads with. Even odds, historically, that frost falls before or after it.
- Late (90% of years). The safer date. Waiting this long cuts the odds of a frost afterward to about one year in ten.
The growing season spread across 40,283 ZIP codes
| ZIP | Growing season | |
|---|---|---|
| shortest on record | Stanley, ID | 13 days |
| right in the middle | Farber, MO | 192 days |
| longest on record | Indian Creek, FL | 365 days |
Browse all 40,283 ZIP codes by state
- Alabama809
- Alaska269
- Arizona506
- Arkansas687
- California2555
- Colorado624
- Connecticut391
- Delaware96
- District of Columbia246
- Florida1609
- Georgia921
- Hawaii133
- Idaho320
- Illinois1548
- Indiana927
- Iowa1042
- Kansas745
- Kentucky909
- Louisiana710
- Maine456
- Maryland583
- Massachusetts712
- Michigan1153
- Minnesota943
- Mississippi523
- Missouri1129
- Montana392
- Nebraska605
- Nevada222
- New Hampshire260
- New Jersey906
- New Mexico427
- New York1951
- North Carolina1078
- North Dakota405
- Ohio1383
- Oklahoma764
- Oregon463
- Pennsylvania2088
- Rhode Island79
- South Carolina519
- South Dakota378
- Tennessee770
- Texas2558
- Utah344
- Vermont330
- Virginia1178
- Washington700
- West Virginia885
- Wisconsin860
- Wyoming192
Why this gives a range, not a date
Search "when is the last frost near me" and most results hand back a single date, as if a 30-year climate record were a promise. It isn't. FrostDateCheck reports what NOAA's own normals actually show: a typical date, and how much that date moves year to year, so a planting decision can be made with the real odds instead of a guess.
What a ZIP code page adds
Every page pairs the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone for that location with NOAA's frost-probability dates from the nearest reporting station, plus where it ranks nationally by growing-season length. Neither figure is this exact address's own weather station in most cases, both are named and linked to the source.