Flint, MI 48556 Frost Dates
48556, near Flint, MI: the frost window
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.
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 Flint, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Flint's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Flint'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.
Flint against the rest of the dataset
Flint's growing season runs about 148 days, ranking 35,612 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 829 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48556: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Flint's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Flint's dates instead of trusting one.