Baxter, MN 56425 Frost Dates
Baxter, MN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/08, about 253 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 141 days after the last spring frost.
Baxter sits in USDA Zone 4a (-30 to -25°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 Baxter'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
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Baxter against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 141 frost-free days, Baxter places 36,888 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 712 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 56425's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Baxter can differ from the 56425 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4a and Baxter's frost date answer different questions.