Chesaning, MI 48616 Frost Dates
Chesaning, MI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Chesaning 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 7 weeks until Chesaning's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Chesaning's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chesaning against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Chesaning's last and first frost, putting it 30,983 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 485 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48616's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Chesaning can differ from the 48616 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Chesaning's frost date answer different questions.