Kalamazoo, MI 49007 Frost Dates
49007, near Kalamazoo, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Kalamazoo 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
Kalamazoo's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
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.
Kalamazoo against the rest of the dataset
Kalamazoo's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 27,733 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 195 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49007: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Kalamazoo's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Kalamazoo's dates instead of trusting one.