Homecroft, IN 46217 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Homecroft, IN, ZIP 46217
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 196 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Homecroft, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Homecroft has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Homecroft's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Homecroft compares
About 196 days separate Homecroft's last and first frost, putting it 19,039 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 172 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Homecroft's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Homecroft's dates instead of trusting one.