Lake Angelus, MI 48330 Frost Dates
Lake Angelus, 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 Lake Angelus, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Lake Angelus'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.
Lake Angelus against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Lake Angelus's last and first frost, putting it 28,493 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 278 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48330's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Lake Angelus's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Angelus's dates instead of trusting one.