Lake Linden, MI 49945 Frost Dates
Lake Linden, MI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/17, about 262 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, 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 Lake Linden, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Lake Linden's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/17 isn't a guarantee
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Linden against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 138 frost-free days, Lake Linden places 37,420 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 930 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 49945's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Lake Linden's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Linden's dates instead of trusting one.