Fife Lake, MI 49633 Frost Dates
Fife Lake, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/24, about 269 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 130 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Fife Lake, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Fife Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fife Lake's last frost
05/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/07 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.
Fife Lake against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 130 frost-free days, Fife Lake places 38,406 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 1,036 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49633's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fife Lake can differ from the 49633 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Fife Lake's frost date answer different questions.