Menominee, MI 49858 Frost Dates
Menominee, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 160 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 Menominee, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Menominee's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Menominee's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Menominee against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Menominee places 32,284 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 620 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49858's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Menominee's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Menominee can differ from the 49858 normal.