Gaston, IN 47342 Frost Dates
Gaston, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Gaston 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 8 weeks until Gaston's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gaston's last frost
04/19 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 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gaston against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Gaston's last and first frost, putting it 22,892 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 339 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47342's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Gaston's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Gaston can differ from the 47342 normal.