Lucan, MN 56255 Frost Dates
Lucan, MN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Lucan 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Lucan's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 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.
Lucan against the rest of the dataset
Lucan's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,901 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MN, it ranks 470 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 56255's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Lucan's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lucan's dates instead of trusting one.