Easton, MN 56025 Frost Dates
56025, near Easton, MN: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Easton 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
Easton's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Easton'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.
Easton against the rest of the dataset
Easton's growing season runs about 158 days, ranking 33,153 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MN, it ranks 297 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 56025: the frost range, on how to read the range around Easton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Easton can differ from the 56025 normal.