Hartford City, IN 47348 Frost Dates
Hartford City, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Hartford City 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 Hartford City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hartford City'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.
Hartford City against the rest of the dataset
Hartford City's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 27,859 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 709 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47348's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hartford City can differ from the 47348 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Hartford City's frost date answer different questions.