Wakefield, MI 49947 Frost Dates
49947, near Wakefield, MI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/26, about 271 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/27, roughly 123 days after the last spring frost.
Wakefield sits in USDA Zone 4a (-30 to -25°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
Wakefield's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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 Wakefield's last frost
05/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wakefield against the rest of the dataset
About 123 days separate Wakefield's last and first frost, putting it 38,902 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 1,088 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49947: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4a and Wakefield's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wakefield's dates instead of trusting one.