Sargeant, MN 55973 Frost Dates
Sargeant, MN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 146 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sargeant 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Sargeant's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sargeant's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sargeant against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 146 frost-free days, Sargeant places 36,151 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 630 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 55973's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Sargeant's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Sargeant's dates instead of trusting one.