Hope, IN 47234 Frost Dates
47234, near Hope, IN: the frost window
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Hope 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
Hope'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hope against the rest of the dataset
Hope's growing season runs about 187 days, ranking 22,409 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 308 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47234: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hope can differ from the 47234 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hope's frost date answer different questions.