Orchard Lake Village, MI 48324 Frost Dates
Orchard Lake Village, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 172 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Orchard Lake Village'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.
Orchard Lake Village against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Orchard Lake Village's last and first frost, putting it 28,335 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 263 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48324's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Orchard Lake Village's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Orchard Lake Village's dates instead of trusting one.