Milford, MI 48356 Frost Dates
Milford, MI: when does the frost end?
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 Milford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Milford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Milford's last frost
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.
Milford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 148 frost-free days, Milford places 35,703 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 832 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48356's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Milford can differ from the 48356 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Milford's frost date answer different questions.