Greensburg, IN 47240 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Greensburg, IN, ZIP 47240
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 194 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Greensburg 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 Greensburg has about 8 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 Greensburg's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Greensburg compares
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Greensburg places 19,459 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 187 of 927.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Greensburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Greensburg can differ from the 47240 normal.