Kewanna, IN 46939 Frost Dates
Kewanna, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Kewanna 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 Kewanna'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
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kewanna against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Kewanna places 25,008 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 506 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46939's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Kewanna's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Kewanna can differ from the 46939 normal.