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Kinde, MI 48445 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Kinde, MI, ZIP 48445

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 162 frost-free days later.

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 Kinde, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6a around Kinde 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.

The actual range around Kinde's last frost

05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Kinde compares

At roughly 162 frost-free days, Kinde places 31,848 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 555 of 1,153.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Kinde's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Kinde's dates instead of trusting one.