Village of Clarkston, MI 48348 Frost Dates
48348, near Village of Clarkston, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/10, about 255 days from today. 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
Village of Clarkston's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
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
About 148 days separate Village of Clarkston's last and first frost, putting it 35,754 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 849 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48348: local microclimates, on what one yard in Village of Clarkston can differ from the 48348 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Village of Clarkston's frost date answer different questions.