Stevensville, MI 49127 Frost Dates
49127, near Stevensville, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/05, about 250 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Stevensville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Stevensville'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.
The actual range around Stevensville's last frost
05/05 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 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stevensville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 161 frost-free days, Stevensville places 32,096 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 589 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49127: local microclimates, on what one yard in Stevensville can differ from the 49127 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Stevensville's frost date answer different questions.