Fairland, IN 46126 Frost Dates
46126, near Fairland, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 191 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 Fairland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fairland's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Fairland's last frost
04/14 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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Fairland places 20,883 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 244 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 46126: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fairland can differ from the 46126 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Fairland's frost date answer different questions.