Wynnedale, IN 46254 Frost Dates
Wynnedale, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Wynnedale sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Wynnedale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wynnedale's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 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.
Wynnedale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Wynnedale places 18,543 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 125 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46254's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wynnedale's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wynnedale's dates instead of trusting one.