Lauderdale, MN 55414 Frost Dates
55414, near Lauderdale, MN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Lauderdale 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
Lauderdale's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lauderdale's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lauderdale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Lauderdale places 26,962 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 59 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 55414: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lauderdale's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lauderdale can differ from the 55414 normal.