Lake Angelus, MI 48332 Frost Dates
48332, near Lake Angelus, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Lake Angelus sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake Angelus's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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
Lake Angelus's growing season runs about 172 days, ranking 28,494 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 279 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48332: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Angelus's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Angelus can differ from the 48332 normal.