Mulberry, IN 46058 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Mulberry, IN?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 182 frost-free days later.
Mulberry sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Mulberry before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Mulberry's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 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 Mulberry compares
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Mulberry places 24,211 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 438 of 927.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Mulberry can differ from the 46058 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and Mulberry's frost date answer different questions.