Orland, IN 46776 Frost Dates
Orland, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. 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 Orland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Orland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Orland'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.
Orland against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Orland's last and first frost, putting it 30,155 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 858 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46776's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Orland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Orland can differ from the 46776 normal.