Milford, IN 46553 Frost Dates
Milford, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Milford 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Milford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Milford's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Milford against the rest of the dataset
Milford's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,697 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 767 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46553's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Milford's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Milford can differ from the 46553 normal.