Fort Wayne, IN 46806 Frost Dates
Fort Wayne, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Wayne 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 8 weeks until Fort Wayne's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fort Wayne's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Wayne against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Fort Wayne places 25,546 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 546 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46806's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fort Wayne's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort Wayne can differ from the 46806 normal.