Crandall, IN 47161 Frost Dates
Crandall, IN: when does the frost end?
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 Crandall, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Crandall's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Crandall'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.
Crandall against the rest of the dataset
About 225 days separate Crandall's last and first frost, putting it 11,511 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 18 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47161's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Crandall can differ from the 47161 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Crandall's frost date answer different questions.