Battle Lake, MN 56515 Frost Dates
Battle Lake, MN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/05, about 250 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 153 days after the last spring frost.
Battle Lake 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 Battle Lake'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
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 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.
Battle Lake against the rest of the dataset
About 153 days separate Battle Lake's last and first frost, putting it 34,570 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 418 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 56515's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4a and Battle Lake's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Battle Lake's dates instead of trusting one.