Dillsboro, IN 47021 Frost Dates
Dillsboro, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Dillsboro 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Dillsboro'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
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dillsboro against the rest of the dataset
Dillsboro's growing season runs about 168 days, ranking 29,736 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 835 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47021's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Dillsboro's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Dillsboro's dates instead of trusting one.