Emmett, MI 48027 Frost Dates
Emmett, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
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 Emmett, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Emmett's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Emmett's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Emmett against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Emmett places 29,234 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 346 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48027's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Emmett can differ from the 48027 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Emmett's frost date answer different questions.