Edmore, MI 49310 Frost Dates
49310, near Edmore, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Edmore in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Edmore's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Edmore's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 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.
Edmore against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Edmore places 28,715 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 297 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49310: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Edmore's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Edmore's dates instead of trusting one.