Elizabeth, MN 56533 Frost Dates
56533, near Elizabeth, MN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
Elizabeth 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
Elizabeth'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 Elizabeth's last frost
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 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elizabeth against the rest of the dataset
About 149 days separate Elizabeth's last and first frost, putting it 35,585 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 570 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 56533: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4a and Elizabeth's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Elizabeth's dates instead of trusting one.