Champlin, MN 55316 Frost Dates
Champlin, MN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 148 days after the last spring frost.
Champlin 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Champlin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Champlin's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Champlin against the rest of the dataset
About 148 days separate Champlin's last and first frost, putting it 35,655 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 580 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 55316's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Champlin can differ from the 55316 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Champlin's frost date answer different questions.