Breckenridge, MI 48862 Frost Dates
Breckenridge, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 164 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 Breckenridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Breckenridge's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Breckenridge's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Breckenridge against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Breckenridge places 31,039 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 498 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48862's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Breckenridge's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Breckenridge can differ from the 48862 normal.