Andrews, IN 46702 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Andrews, IN?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 166 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 Andrews, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Andrews before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Andrews's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Andrews compares
At roughly 166 frost-free days, Andrews places 30,410 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 865 of 927.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Andrews's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Andrews can differ from the 46702 normal.