Fishers, IN 46038 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Fishers, IN?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 190 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fishers in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Fishers before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Fishers's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fishers compares
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Fishers places 20,971 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 247 of 927.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Fishers's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Fishers can differ from the 46038 normal.