Kinney, MN 55758 Frost Dates
55758, near Kinney, MN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 06/05, about 281 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/08, roughly 93 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 3b (-35 to -30°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Kinney, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kinney's growing season runs out in roughly 2 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 Kinney's last frost
06/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kinney against the rest of the dataset
About 93 days separate Kinney's last and first frost, putting it 39,879 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 930 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 55758: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kinney's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kinney can differ from the 55758 normal.