Lanesville, IN 47136 Frost Dates
Lanesville, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Lanesville 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 10 weeks until Lanesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lanesville'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.
Lanesville against the rest of the dataset
Lanesville's growing season runs about 225 days, ranking 11,448 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 14 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47136's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lanesville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lanesville can differ from the 47136 normal.