Nashville, MI 49073 Frost Dates
Nashville, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Nashville 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 Nashville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Nashville's last frost
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.
Nashville against the rest of the dataset
About 158 days separate Nashville's last and first frost, putting it 33,021 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 669 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49073's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Nashville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Nashville can differ from the 49073 normal.