Liberty, IN 47325 Frost Dates
47325, near Liberty, IN: the frost window
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Liberty sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Liberty's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Liberty against the rest of the dataset
Liberty's growing season runs about 164 days, ranking 31,000 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 874 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47325: local microclimates, on what one yard in Liberty can differ from the 47325 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Liberty's frost date answer different questions.