Warsaw, IN 46582 Frost Dates
Warsaw, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Warsaw 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 8 weeks until Warsaw's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Warsaw's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Warsaw against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Warsaw's last and first frost, putting it 24,094 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 425 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46582's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Warsaw's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Warsaw can differ from the 46582 normal.