Pigeon, MI 48755 Frost Dates
48755, near Pigeon, MI: the frost window
Around 05/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 253 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Pigeon 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
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 31,790 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 551 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48755: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Pigeon's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pigeon's dates instead of trusting one.