Tracy, MN 56175 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Tracy, MN?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/05, about 156 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 Tracy, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 5 weeks of growing season left in Tracy before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Tracy's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Tracy compares
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Tracy places 33,662 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 316 of 943.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 5a and Tracy's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Tracy's dates instead of trusting one.