Albion, IN 46796 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Albion, IN, ZIP 46796
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 182 frost-free days later.
Albion 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Albion has about 8 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 Albion's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Albion compares
About 182 days separate Albion's last and first frost, putting it 24,181 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 433 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Albion's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Albion's dates instead of trusting one.