Eyota, MN 55934 Frost Dates
Eyota, 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 10/06, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.
Eyota sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Eyota's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eyota against the rest of the dataset
About 159 days separate Eyota's last and first frost, putting it 32,676 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 260 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 55934's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Eyota can differ from the 55934 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Eyota's frost date answer different questions.