Newberry, MI 49839 Frost Dates
Newberry, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/27, about 272 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 138 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 Newberry, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Newberry's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Newberry's last frost
05/27 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 06/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newberry against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 138 frost-free days, Newberry places 37,408 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 927 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49839's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Newberry can differ from the 49839 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Newberry's frost date answer different questions.