St. Joe, IN 46788 Frost Dates
Frost dates for St. Joe, IN, ZIP 46788
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 174 frost-free days later.
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 St. Joe, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around St. Joe has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around St. Joe's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How St. Joe compares
About 174 days separate St. Joe's last and first frost, putting it 27,601 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 687 of 927.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around St. Joe's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in St. Joe can differ from the 46788 normal.