Leslie, MI 49264 Frost Dates
Leslie, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Leslie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Leslie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Leslie's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leslie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Leslie places 30,610 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 457 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49264's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Leslie can differ from the 49264 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Leslie's frost date answer different questions.