Midland, MI 48640 Frost Dates
Midland, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Midland 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 Midland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Midland's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Midland against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Midland's last and first frost, putting it 29,863 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 356 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48640's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Midland's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Midland's dates instead of trusting one.