Mulliken, MI 48861 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mulliken, MI, ZIP 48861
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 164 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mulliken in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Mulliken 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 Mulliken's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mulliken compares
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Mulliken places 31,115 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 507 of 1,153.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Mulliken's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Mulliken's dates instead of trusting one.