Grove City, MN 56243 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Grove City, MN?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/02, about 147 frost-free days later.
Grove City sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 5 weeks of growing season left in Grove City before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Grove City's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Grove City compares
At roughly 147 frost-free days, Grove City places 35,951 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 611 of 943.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 4b and Grove City's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Grove City's dates instead of trusting one.