Durand, MI 48429 Frost Dates
48429, near Durand, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 159 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 Durand, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Durand'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
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Durand against the rest of the dataset
Durand's growing season runs about 159 days, ranking 32,650 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 651 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48429: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Durand's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Durand's dates instead of trusting one.