Cloverdale, IN 46120 Frost Dates
46120, near Cloverdale, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cloverdale in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Cloverdale's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Cloverdale's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cloverdale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Cloverdale places 29,470 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 813 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 46120: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cloverdale can differ from the 46120 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Cloverdale's frost date answer different questions.