McBride, MI 48852 Frost Dates
48852, near McBride, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/18, about 263 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 133 days after the last spring frost.
McBride 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
McBride'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.
The actual range around McBride's last frost
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.
McBride against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 133 frost-free days, McBride places 38,139 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 1,016 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 48852: local microclimates, on what one yard in McBride can differ from the 48852 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and McBride's frost date answer different questions.