Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 Frost Dates
Bloomfield Hills, MI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 172 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 Bloomfield Hills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Bloomfield Hills's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bloomfield Hills against the rest of the dataset
Bloomfield Hills's growing season runs about 172 days, ranking 28,283 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 254 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48302's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bloomfield Hills can differ from the 48302 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Bloomfield Hills's frost date answer different questions.