Clements, MN 56224 Frost Dates
56224, near Clements, MN: the frost window
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Clements in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Clements's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clements against the rest of the dataset
About 150 days separate Clements's last and first frost, putting it 35,446 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 552 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 56224: the frost range, on how to read the range around Clements's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Clements can differ from the 56224 normal.