Hudson, IN 46779 Frost Dates
Hudson, 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.
Hudson 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 Hudson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hudson'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.
Hudson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Hudson places 30,135 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 853 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46779's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hudson's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hudson can differ from the 46779 normal.