Wabasso, MN 56293 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Wabasso, MN?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/02, about 152 frost-free days later.
Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 Wabasso, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 5 weeks of growing season left in Wabasso before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Wabasso's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/19 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 Wabasso compares
At roughly 152 frost-free days, Wabasso places 34,830 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 455 of 943.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 4b and Wabasso's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Wabasso's dates instead of trusting one.