Village of Clarkston, MI 48346 Frost Dates
Village of Clarkston, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 05/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 255 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 148 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 Village of Clarkston, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Village of Clarkston's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/10 isn't a guarantee
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Village of Clarkston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 148 frost-free days, Village of Clarkston places 35,753 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 848 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48346's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Village of Clarkston's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Village of Clarkston's dates instead of trusting one.