Central Lake, MI 49627 Frost Dates
49627, near Central Lake, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/23, roughly 268 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 131 days after the last spring frost.
Central Lake sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Central Lake's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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 Central Lake's last frost
05/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Central Lake against the rest of the dataset
About 131 days separate Central Lake's last and first frost, putting it 38,306 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 1,026 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49627: the frost range, on how to read the range around Central Lake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Central Lake can differ from the 49627 normal.