Fowler, MI 48835 Frost Dates
48835, near Fowler, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 179 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 Fowler, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fowler's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Fowler's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fowler against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Fowler places 25,393 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 97 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48835: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fowler can differ from the 48835 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Fowler's frost date answer different questions.