Gas City, IN 46933 Frost Dates
Gas City, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gas City in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Gas City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gas City against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Gas City's last and first frost, putting it 26,867 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 630 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46933's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gas City can differ from the 46933 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Gas City's frost date answer different questions.