Beverly Shores, IN 46301 Frost Dates
Beverly Shores, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Beverly Shores in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Beverly Shores'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
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beverly Shores against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Beverly Shores's last and first frost, putting it 22,151 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 289 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46301's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Beverly Shores's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Beverly Shores can differ from the 46301 normal.