Parchment, MI 49005 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Parchment, MI, ZIP 49005
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 173 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Parchment 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 Parchment has about 8 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 Parchment's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/12 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 Parchment compares
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Parchment places 27,939 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 228 of 1,153.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Parchment's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Parchment's dates instead of trusting one.