Vermontville, MI 49096 Frost Dates
49096, near Vermontville, MI: the frost window
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Vermontville 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
Vermontville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/01 isn't a guarantee
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 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.
Vermontville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Vermontville places 31,082 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 505 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49096: the frost range, on how to read the range around Vermontville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Vermontville can differ from the 49096 normal.