Etna Green, IN 46524 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Etna Green, IN?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 182 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Etna Green, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Etna Green before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Etna Green's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Etna Green compares
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Etna Green places 24,272 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 449 of 927.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Etna Green can differ from the 46524 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and Etna Green's frost date answer different questions.