Leslie, MI 49277 Frost Dates
Leslie, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 164 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
05/01 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 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leslie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Leslie places 31,003 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 490 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49277's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Leslie can differ from the 49277 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Leslie's frost date answer different questions.