Evart, MI 49631 Frost Dates
49631, near Evart, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/13, roughly 258 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 142 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Evart in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Evart'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 Evart's last frost
05/13 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 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Evart against the rest of the dataset
Evart's growing season runs about 142 days, ranking 36,751 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 895 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49631: local microclimates, on what one yard in Evart can differ from the 49631 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Evart's frost date answer different questions.