Waterloo, IN 46793 Frost Dates
Waterloo, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.
Waterloo 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 6 weeks until Waterloo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/02 isn't a guarantee
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.
Waterloo against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 159 frost-free days, Waterloo places 32,672 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 925 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46793's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Waterloo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Waterloo can differ from the 46793 normal.