Gobles, MI 49055 Frost Dates
Gobles, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Gobles 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 Gobles'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
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gobles against the rest of the dataset
Gobles's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,747 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 754 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49055's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Gobles's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Gobles's dates instead of trusting one.