Angle Inlet, Minnesota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 3a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Angle Inlet, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Angle Inlet lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Angle Inlet — the short answer
Angle Inlet, Minnesota: USDA zone 3a, about 161 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 3a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~161
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 3a is Angle Inlet's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Angle Inlet's 161-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Angle Inlet
Each reading below is measured for Angle Inlet itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAngle Inlet runs about 161 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAngle Inlet sits in USDA hardiness zone 3a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Angle Inlet is in
Angle Inlet sits in the Northern Minnesota Wetlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Angle Inlet's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lake of the Woods County.
What Grows in Angle Inlet
Every plant below cleared Angle Inlet's own zone 3a and its 161-day season. Each card opens that plant's Minnesota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Angle Inlet?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Angle Inlet
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Angle Inlet. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Bay Store & ResortUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.4 mi
Measured from Angle Inlet's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Angle Inlet.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Angle Inlet
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
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Your land is one point inside Angle Inlet
Everything above resolves to Angle Inlet as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Angle Inlet Average
Angle Inlet Average
- ●USDA Zones 3a, averaged across Angle Inlet
- ●One soil character for all of Angle Inlet
- ●Frost dates read at Angle Inlet's scale: May 3 to Oct 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Angle Inlet's 3a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Angle Inlet — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Angle Inlet average
How we know this about Angle Inlet
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Angle Inlet’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Angle Inlet
When does frost risk typically end in Angle Inlet?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Angle Inlet typically lands around May 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 24.
When is the first frost in Angle Inlet?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Angle Inlet typically arrives around Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 27, so the watching starts about Sep 11 — about 161 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Angle Inlet?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Angle Inlet sees about 161 frost-free days — roughly May 3 through Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 24 to Sep 27, about 126 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Angle Inlet?
The federal record around Angle Inlet is light — 1 documented site across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 9.4 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Angle Inlet?
From about Sep 11 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Angle Inlet's scale — its 3a band and its 161-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Angle Inlet's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Angle Inlet’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Angle Inlet's own scale — its own ~161-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,114 acres it covers and 1 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Angle Inlet's own USDA hardiness band, zones 3aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Angle Inlet's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 3 and Oct 11 and the ~161-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Angle Inlet, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 9.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Angle Inlet's boundary and the 1,114 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 3a and a ~161-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Angle Inlet's own centroid, the Northern Minnesota WetlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Angle Inlet's 1,114 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lake of the Woods County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lake of the Woods County
- The growing challenges every Minnesota grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Minnesota
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Lake of the Woods County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Angle Inlet's 1,114 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Angle Inlet you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,114 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 9.4 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Angle Inlet-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MinnesotaAngle Inlet sits outside our named growing regions, so Minnesota as a whole is its closest context here.