Reed City, MI 49677 Frost Dates
Reed City, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/13, about 258 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 142 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Reed City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Reed City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Reed City'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.
Reed City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 142 frost-free days, Reed City places 36,744 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 894 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49677's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Reed City can differ from the 49677 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Reed City's frost date answer different questions.