Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069 Frost Dates
Pleasant Ridge, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pleasant Ridge 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Pleasant Ridge's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pleasant Ridge's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pleasant Ridge against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Pleasant Ridge places 21,178 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 42 of 1,153.
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Before leaning on 48069's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pleasant Ridge can differ from the 48069 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Pleasant Ridge's frost date answer different questions.