Bingham Lake, MN 56118 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bingham Lake, MN, ZIP 56118
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/10, about 162 frost-free days later.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Bingham Lake, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5a around Bingham Lake has about 6 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 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bingham Lake compares
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Bingham Lake places 31,889 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 191 of 943.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Bingham Lake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Bingham Lake can differ from the 56118 normal.