Bear Lake, MI 49613 Frost Dates
Bear Lake, MI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Bear Lake, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Bear Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bear Lake against the rest of the dataset
Bear Lake's growing season runs about 163 days, ranking 31,528 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 523 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49613's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bear Lake's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bear Lake's dates instead of trusting one.