Ubly, MI 48410 Frost Dates
48410, near Ubly, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
Ubly 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
Ubly's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Ubly's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ubly against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Ubly places 30,653 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 463 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48410: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ubly can differ from the 48410 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Ubly's frost date answer different questions.