Vanderbilt, MI 49795 Frost Dates
49795, near Vanderbilt, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/07, roughly 283 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/14, roughly 95 days after the last spring frost.
Vanderbilt sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Vanderbilt's growing season runs out in roughly 2 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 06/07 isn't a guarantee
06/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vanderbilt against the rest of the dataset
Vanderbilt's growing season runs about 95 days, ranking 39,814 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MI, it ranks 1,144 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49795: local microclimates, on what one yard in Vanderbilt can differ from the 49795 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Vanderbilt's frost date answer different questions.