Ashley, IN 46705 Frost Dates
Ashley, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ashley in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Ashley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ashley's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ashley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Ashley places 30,078 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 847 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46705's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ashley's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ashley can differ from the 46705 normal.