Fraser, MI 48035 Frost Dates
48035, near Fraser, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fraser in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Fraser's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Fraser's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fraser against the rest of the dataset
Fraser's growing season runs about 174 days, ranking 27,397 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 176 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48035: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fraser can differ from the 48035 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Fraser's frost date answer different questions.