Dimondale, MI 48821 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Dimondale, MI, ZIP 48821
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 173 frost-free days later.
Dimondale 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Dimondale has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Dimondale's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dimondale compares
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Dimondale places 27,981 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 232 of 1,153.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Dimondale's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Dimondale can differ from the 48821 normal.