Edmore, MI 48812 Frost Dates
Edmore, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Edmore sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 8 weeks until Edmore's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Edmore's last frost
04/30 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 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edmore against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Edmore's last and first frost, putting it 28,714 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 296 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48812's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Edmore can differ from the 48812 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Edmore's frost date answer different questions.