Waldron, MI 43501 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Waldron, MI?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 170 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Waldron, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Waldron before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Waldron's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Waldron compares
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Waldron places 29,174 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 342 of 1,153.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Waldron can differ from the 43501 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and Waldron's frost date answer different questions.