Holdingford, MN 56340 Frost Dates
Holdingford, MN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/10, about 255 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 140 days after the last spring frost.
Holdingford 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Holdingford'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
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Holdingford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 140 frost-free days, Holdingford places 37,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 742 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 56340's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Holdingford can differ from the 56340 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Holdingford's frost date answer different questions.