Eaton, IN 47338 Frost Dates
Eaton, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Eaton 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Eaton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eaton's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eaton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Eaton places 27,957 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 722 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47338's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Eaton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Eaton can differ from the 47338 normal.