Melvindale, MI 48120 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Melvindale, MI?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 181 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Melvindale, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Melvindale before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Melvindale's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Melvindale compares
About 181 days separate Melvindale's last and first frost, putting it 24,473 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 79 of 1,153.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Melvindale's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Melvindale can differ from the 48120 normal.