Oakdale, MN 55128 Frost Dates
Oakdale, MN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Oakdale in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 6 weeks until Oakdale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Oakdale's last frost
04/26 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 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oakdale against the rest of the dataset
About 166 days separate Oakdale's last and first frost, putting it 30,294 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 99 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 55128's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Oakdale's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Oakdale can differ from the 55128 normal.