Eastlake, MI 49626 Frost Dates
49626, near Eastlake, MI: the frost window
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 151 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 Eastlake, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Eastlake's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/14 isn't a guarantee
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eastlake against the rest of the dataset
Eastlake's growing season runs about 151 days, ranking 35,147 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 817 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49626: the frost range, on how to read the range around Eastlake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Eastlake can differ from the 49626 normal.