Edmore, MI 48829 Frost Dates
48829, near Edmore, MI: the frost window
Around 05/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 263 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 133 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Edmore in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Edmore's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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
05/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edmore against the rest of the dataset
About 133 days separate Edmore's last and first frost, putting it 38,076 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 999 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48829: the frost range, on how to read the range around Edmore's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Edmore can differ from the 48829 normal.