Elizabethtown, IN 47232 Frost Dates
47232, near Elizabethtown, 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 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Elizabethtown 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
Elizabethtown's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Elizabethtown's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elizabethtown against the rest of the dataset
Elizabethtown's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,340 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 182 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47232: the frost range, on how to read the range around Elizabethtown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Elizabethtown can differ from the 47232 normal.