Wood Lake, MN 56297 Frost Dates
56297, near Wood Lake, 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 Wood Lake in Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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
Wood Lake'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.
The actual range around Wood Lake's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wood Lake against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 150 frost-free days, Wood Lake places 35,391 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 535 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 56297: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wood Lake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wood Lake can differ from the 56297 normal.