Osgood, IN 47039 Frost Dates
Osgood, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Osgood in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 7 weeks until Osgood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Osgood's last frost
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.
Osgood against the rest of the dataset
Osgood's growing season runs about 168 days, ranking 29,729 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 833 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47039's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Osgood's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Osgood's dates instead of trusting one.