Wayne, MI 48184 Frost Dates
Wayne, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Wayne 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 Wayne's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wayne'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.
Wayne against the rest of the dataset
Wayne's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 21,884 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 54 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48184's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wayne's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wayne can differ from the 48184 normal.