Indian Village, IN 46635 Frost Dates
Indian Village, IN: when does the frost end?
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.
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 Indian Village, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Indian Village's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Indian Village's growing season runs about 170 days, ranking 29,264 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 809 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46635's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Indian Village can differ from the 46635 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Indian Village's frost date answer different questions.