Camden, IN 46917 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Camden, IN, ZIP 46917
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 185 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 Camden, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Camden 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 Camden's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Camden compares
About 185 days separate Camden's last and first frost, putting it 23,272 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 386 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Camden's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Camden's dates instead of trusting one.