Fountain City, IN 47341 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Fountain City, IN, ZIP 47341
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/09, about 164 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Fountain City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Fountain City has about 6 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 Fountain City's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fountain City compares
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Fountain City places 31,092 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 880 of 927.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Fountain City can differ from the 47341 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Fountain City's frost date answer different questions.