Homecroft, IN 46227 Frost Dates
Homecroft, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Homecroft'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
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Homecroft against the rest of the dataset
Homecroft's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,938 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 421 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46227's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Homecroft's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Homecroft's dates instead of trusting one.