Cement City, MI 49282 Frost Dates
Cement City, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Cement City 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 Cement City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cement City's last frost
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.
Cement City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 161 frost-free days, Cement City places 32,142 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 606 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49282's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Cement City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cement City's dates instead of trusting one.