Newberry, MI 49853 Frost Dates
Newberry, MI: when does the frost end?
Around 05/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 266 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 135 days after the last spring frost.
Newberry 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
With roughly 5 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
05/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newberry against the rest of the dataset
About 135 days separate Newberry's last and first frost, putting it 37,882 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 976 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49853's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Newberry's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Newberry can differ from the 49853 normal.