Borden, IN 47106 Frost Dates
47106, near Borden, IN: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Borden, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Borden's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Borden's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Borden against the rest of the dataset
About 225 days separate Borden's last and first frost, putting it 11,451 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 16 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47106: the frost range, on how to read the range around Borden's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Borden can differ from the 47106 normal.