Pigeon, MI 48720 Frost Dates
48720, near Pigeon, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pigeon in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pigeon's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Pigeon's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 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.
Pigeon against the rest of the dataset
About 162 days separate Pigeon's last and first frost, putting it 31,789 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 550 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48720: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pigeon's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pigeon can differ from the 48720 normal.