Waltham, MN 55982 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Waltham, MN, ZIP 55982
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/05, about 158 frost-free days later.
Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 Waltham, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 4b around Waltham has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Waltham compares
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Waltham places 33,158 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 300 of 943.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Waltham's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Waltham's dates instead of trusting one.