Berne, IN 46711 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Berne, IN, ZIP 46711
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 178 frost-free days later.
Berne 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Berne has about 7 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 Berne's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Berne compares
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Berne places 25,705 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 587 of 927.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Berne can differ from the 46711 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Berne's frost date answer different questions.