La Crosse, IN 46348 Frost Dates
La Crosse, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
La Crosse 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 La Crosse'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
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Crosse against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 166 frost-free days, La Crosse places 30,429 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 867 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46348's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in La Crosse can differ from the 46348 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and La Crosse's frost date answer different questions.