New Middletown, IN 47160 Frost Dates
New Middletown, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
New Middletown sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 8 weeks until New Middletown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Middletown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 186 frost-free days, New Middletown places 22,978 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 347 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47160's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around New Middletown's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in New Middletown can differ from the 47160 normal.