Lagrange, IN 46746 Frost Dates
Lagrange, 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.
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 Lagrange, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Lagrange's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lagrange'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.
Lagrange against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Lagrange places 29,997 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 841 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46746's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lagrange's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lagrange can differ from the 46746 normal.