Goshen, IN 46527 Frost Dates
46527, near Goshen, IN: the frost window
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Goshen 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
Goshen's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Goshen's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goshen against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Goshen's last and first frost, putting it 26,756 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 625 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 46527: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Goshen's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Goshen's dates instead of trusting one.