Scottville, MI 49454 Frost Dates
Scottville, MI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/17, roughly 262 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 144 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 Scottville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Scottville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Scottville's last frost
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scottville against the rest of the dataset
About 144 days separate Scottville's last and first frost, putting it 36,398 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 882 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49454's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Scottville can differ from the 49454 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Scottville's frost date answer different questions.