Melvindale, MI 48217 Frost Dates
Melvindale, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Melvindale in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Melvindale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Melvindale's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Melvindale against the rest of the dataset
About 181 days separate Melvindale's last and first frost, putting it 24,474 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 80 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48217's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Melvindale's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Melvindale can differ from the 48217 normal.