Albion, IN 46701 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Albion, IN, ZIP 46701
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 182 frost-free days later.
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 Albion, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Albion has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Albion's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Albion compares
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Albion places 24,179 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 431 of 927.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Albion's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Albion can differ from the 46701 normal.