Lindstrom, MN 55045 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lindstrom, MN, ZIP 55045
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/05, about 154 frost-free days later.
Lindstrom 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 4b around Lindstrom has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lindstrom's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lindstrom compares
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Lindstrom places 34,271 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 388 of 943.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Lindstrom's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Lindstrom's dates instead of trusting one.