Eden Prairie, MN 55344 Frost Dates
Eden Prairie, MN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Eden Prairie 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 Eden Prairie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eden Prairie's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eden Prairie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Eden Prairie places 32,197 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 213 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 55344's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Eden Prairie can differ from the 55344 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Eden Prairie's frost date answer different questions.