Kingsford Heights, IN 46352 Frost Dates
46352, near Kingsford Heights, IN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Kingsford Heights sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Kingsford Heights's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Kingsford Heights's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kingsford Heights against the rest of the dataset
Kingsford Heights's growing season runs about 191 days, ranking 20,816 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 239 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 46352: local microclimates, on what one yard in Kingsford Heights can differ from the 46352 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Kingsford Heights's frost date answer different questions.