Elko New Market, MN 55054 Frost Dates
55054, near Elko New Market, MN: the frost window
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Elko New Market 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
Elko New Market's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Elko New Market's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elko New Market against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 166 frost-free days, Elko New Market places 30,363 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 105 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 55054: local microclimates, on what one yard in Elko New Market can differ from the 55054 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Elko New Market's frost date answer different questions.