Crandall, IN 47166 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Crandall, IN, ZIP 47166
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 225 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Crandall in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Crandall has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Crandall's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Crandall compares
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Crandall places 11,512 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 19 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Crandall's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Crandall's dates instead of trusting one.