Mooresville, IN 46113 Frost Dates
Mooresville, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Mooresville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Mooresville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mooresville against the rest of the dataset
Mooresville's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 18,937 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 164 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46113's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Mooresville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Mooresville can differ from the 46113 normal.