Burton, MI 48519 Frost Dates
Burton, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/08, about 253 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 148 days after the last spring frost.
Burton 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Burton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Burton's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burton against the rest of the dataset
About 148 days separate Burton's last and first frost, putting it 35,636 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 831 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48519's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Burton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Burton can differ from the 48519 normal.