Meadowlands, MN 55724 Frost Dates
55724, near Meadowlands, MN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/27, roughly 272 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/20, roughly 115 days after the last spring frost.
Meadowlands sits in USDA Zone 3b (-35 to -30°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
Meadowlands's growing season runs out in roughly 3 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 Meadowlands's last frost
05/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Meadowlands against the rest of the dataset
Meadowlands's growing season runs about 115 days, ranking 39,342 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MN, it ranks 903 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 55724: the frost range, on how to read the range around Meadowlands's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Meadowlands can differ from the 55724 normal.