Indian Village, IN 46556 Frost Dates
46556, near Indian Village, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Indian Village 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
Indian Village's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Indian Village's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Indian Village against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Indian Village's last and first frost, putting it 29,263 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 808 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 46556: local microclimates, on what one yard in Indian Village can differ from the 46556 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Indian Village's frost date answer different questions.