Hudsonville, MI 49428 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hudsonville, MI, ZIP 49428
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/10, about 157 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hudsonville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Hudsonville has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Hudsonville's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hudsonville compares
About 157 days separate Hudsonville's last and first frost, putting it 33,286 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 719 of 1,153.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Hudsonville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Hudsonville can differ from the 49428 normal.