Gagetown, MI 48735 Frost Dates
48735, near Gagetown, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 152 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 Gagetown, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gagetown's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 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.
Gagetown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 152 frost-free days, Gagetown places 34,881 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 809 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48735: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gagetown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gagetown can differ from the 48735 normal.