Romeo, MI 48096 Frost Dates
Romeo, MI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. 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 Romeo, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Romeo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Romeo'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.
Romeo against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Romeo's last and first frost, putting it 29,014 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 325 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48096's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Romeo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Romeo can differ from the 48096 normal.