Woodhaven, MI 48183 Frost Dates
Woodhaven, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Woodhaven 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Woodhaven's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Woodhaven's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodhaven against the rest of the dataset
Woodhaven's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 21,900 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 56 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48183's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Woodhaven's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Woodhaven can differ from the 48183 normal.