Parchment, MI 49004 Frost Dates
Parchment, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 173 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 Parchment, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Parchment's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Parchment's last frost
04/29 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 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Parchment against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Parchment places 27,938 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 227 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49004's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Parchment can differ from the 49004 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Parchment's frost date answer different questions.