Bad Axe, MI 48413 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bad Axe, MI, ZIP 48413
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 163 frost-free days later.
Bad Axe 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Bad Axe has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 05/05 isn't a guarantee
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bad Axe compares
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Bad Axe places 31,397 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 517 of 1,153.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Bad Axe's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Bad Axe's dates instead of trusting one.