Baraga, MI 49952 Frost Dates
49952, near Baraga, MI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/25, roughly 270 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/23, roughly 119 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Baraga in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Baraga'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 Baraga's last frost
05/25 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 06/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Baraga against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 119 frost-free days, Baraga places 39,148 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MI, it ranks 1,100 of 1,153.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 49952: local microclimates, on what one yard in Baraga can differ from the 49952 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Baraga's frost date answer different questions.