Kouts, IN 46347 Frost Dates
Kouts, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Kouts sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 7 weeks until Kouts'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
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kouts against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Kouts places 27,935 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 718 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46347's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Kouts's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Kouts's dates instead of trusting one.