Laurel, IN 47024 Frost Dates
Laurel, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Laurel 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 Laurel's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Laurel against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Laurel places 24,297 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 455 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47024's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Laurel's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Laurel's dates instead of trusting one.