Newberry, MI 49868 Frost Dates
49868, near Newberry, MI: the frost window
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
Newberry's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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 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
At roughly 135 frost-free days, Newberry places 37,883 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 977 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49868: the frost range, on how to read the range around Newberry's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Newberry can differ from the 49868 normal.