Pewamo, MI 48873 Frost Dates
Pewamo, MI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/03, roughly 248 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Pewamo sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Pewamo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/03 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 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pewamo against the rest of the dataset
About 161 days separate Pewamo's last and first frost, putting it 32,133 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 600 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48873's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pewamo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pewamo can differ from the 48873 normal.