Gaylord, MI 49756 Frost Dates
49756, near Gaylord, MI: the frost window
Around 05/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 256 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 146 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 Gaylord, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gaylord'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.
The actual range around Gaylord's last frost
05/11 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.
Gaylord against the rest of the dataset
Gaylord's growing season runs about 146 days, ranking 36,046 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 875 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49756: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Gaylord's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Gaylord's dates instead of trusting one.