Goshen, IN 46526 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Goshen, IN, ZIP 46526
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 175 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 Goshen, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Goshen has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Goshen compares
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Goshen places 26,755 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 624 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Goshen's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Goshen's dates instead of trusting one.