Hastings, MI 49058 Frost Dates
Hastings, 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 158 days after the last spring frost.
Hastings 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 Hastings'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 04/20 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.
Hastings against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Hastings places 32,956 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 660 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49058's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hastings can differ from the 49058 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Hastings's frost date answer different questions.