Lake Angelus, MI 48361 Frost Dates
48361, near Lake Angelus, MI: the frost window
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.
Lake Angelus sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
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 28,499 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 284 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48361: 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 48361 normal.