Hanover, IN 47147 Frost Dates
47147, near Hanover, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Hanover 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
Hanover'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.
The actual range around Hanover's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hanover against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Hanover's last and first frost, putting it 17,507 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 97 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47147: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hanover's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hanover's dates instead of trusting one.