Baudette, MN 56629 Frost Dates
56629, near Baudette, MN: the frost window
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/26, roughly 135 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Baudette in Zone 3b (-35 to -30°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
Baudette's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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 Baudette's last frost
05/14 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 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Baudette against the rest of the dataset
Baudette's growing season runs about 135 days, ranking 37,895 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MN, it ranks 804 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 56629: local microclimates, on what one yard in Baudette can differ from the 56629 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 3b and Baudette's frost date answer different questions.