English, IN 47175 Frost Dates
47175, near English, IN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
English 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
English'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 English's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
English against the rest of the dataset
English's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,695 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 76 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47175: local microclimates, on what one yard in English can differ from the 47175 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and English's frost date answer different questions.