North Adams, MI 49262 Frost Dates
North Adams, 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 161 days after the last spring frost.
North Adams 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 North Adams'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 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Adams against the rest of the dataset
North Adams's growing season runs about 161 days, ranking 32,140 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 604 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49262's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in North Adams can differ from the 49262 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and North Adams's frost date answer different questions.