Isanti, MN 55040 Frost Dates
Isanti, MN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 153 days after the last spring frost.
Isanti sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 5 weeks until Isanti's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Isanti's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Isanti against the rest of the dataset
About 153 days separate Isanti's last and first frost, putting it 34,518 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 405 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 55040's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Isanti's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Isanti's dates instead of trusting one.