Lawton, MI 49065 Frost Dates
Lawton, 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.
Lawton 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 Lawton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee
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.
Lawton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Lawton places 33,672 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 746 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49065's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Lawton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lawton's dates instead of trusting one.