Falcon Heights, MN 55114 Frost Dates
55114, near Falcon Heights, MN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Falcon Heights sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Falcon Heights'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Falcon Heights against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Falcon Heights places 31,716 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 176 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 55114: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Falcon Heights's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Falcon Heights's dates instead of trusting one.