Oak Park Heights, MN 54082 Frost Dates
Oak Park Heights, MN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Oak Park Heights in Zone 4b (-25 to -20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Oak Park Heights's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Oak Park Heights's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oak Park Heights against the rest of the dataset
About 178 days separate Oak Park Heights's last and first frost, putting it 25,701 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 8 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 54082's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Oak Park Heights can differ from the 54082 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Oak Park Heights's frost date answer different questions.