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Stilesville, IN 46125 Frost Dates

Stilesville, IN: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 173 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 Stilesville, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 7 weeks until Stilesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee

04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Stilesville against the rest of the dataset

About 173 days separate Stilesville's last and first frost, putting it 28,079 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 744 of 927.

Learn more

Before leaning on 46125's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Stilesville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Stilesville's dates instead of trusting one.