Fraser, MI 48088 Frost Dates
48088, near Fraser, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Fraser sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fraser's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/21 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.
Fraser against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Fraser places 21,074 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 32 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48088: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Fraser's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fraser's dates instead of trusting one.