Orchard Lake Village, MI 48322 Frost Dates
48322, near Orchard Lake Village, MI: the frost window
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Orchard Lake Village in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Orchard Lake Village's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Orchard Lake Village's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orchard Lake Village against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Orchard Lake Village places 30,600 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 454 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48322: local microclimates, on what one yard in Orchard Lake Village can differ from the 48322 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Orchard Lake Village's frost date answer different questions.