Cedar Grove, IN 47016 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cedar Grove, IN, ZIP 47016
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 182 frost-free days later.
Cedar Grove sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 6b around Cedar Grove 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.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
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. 05/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cedar Grove compares
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Cedar Grove places 24,351 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 462 of 927.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Cedar Grove's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedar Grove can differ from the 47016 normal.