Eden Prairie, MN 55346 Frost Dates
55346, near Eden Prairie, MN: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. 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
Eden Prairie'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.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
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 32,198 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 214 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 55346: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Eden Prairie's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Eden Prairie's dates instead of trusting one.