Fremont, IN 46737 Frost Dates
46737, near Fremont, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Fremont 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fremont's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Fremont against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Fremont places 30,025 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 843 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 46737: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fremont's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fremont can differ from the 46737 normal.