Leo-Cedarville, IN 46765 Frost Dates
46765, near Leo-Cedarville, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.
Leo-Cedarville 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
Leo-Cedarville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Leo-Cedarville's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leo-Cedarville against the rest of the dataset
Leo-Cedarville's growing season runs about 159 days, ranking 32,649 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 922 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 46765: local microclimates, on what one yard in Leo-Cedarville can differ from the 46765 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Leo-Cedarville's frost date answer different questions.