Bricelyn, MN 56014 Frost Dates
Bricelyn, 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 158 days after the last spring frost.
Bricelyn sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Bricelyn's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bricelyn's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bricelyn against the rest of the dataset
About 158 days separate Bricelyn's last and first frost, putting it 33,123 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 293 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 56014's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bricelyn can differ from the 56014 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Bricelyn's frost date answer different questions.