Poneto, IN 46759 Frost Dates
Poneto, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Poneto 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Poneto's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Poneto against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Poneto places 28,830 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 787 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46759's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Poneto can differ from the 46759 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Poneto's frost date answer different questions.