Birdseye, IN 47116 Frost Dates
47116, near Birdseye, IN: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 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 Birdseye, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Birdseye's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Birdseye against the rest of the dataset
Birdseye's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,727 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 77 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47116: the frost range, on how to read the range around Birdseye's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Birdseye can differ from the 47116 normal.