FrostDateCheck

Ubly, MI 48475 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Ubly, MI?

Zone 6a

Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 163 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 Ubly, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

About 7 weeks of growing season left in Ubly before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Ubly's last frost

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 Ubly compares

About 163 days separate Ubly's last and first frost, putting it 31,488 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 520 of 1,153.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Ubly's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Ubly can differ from the 48475 normal.