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Losantville, IN 47354 Frost Dates

Losantville, IN: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

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.

Losantville 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 6 weeks until Losantville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

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.

Losantville against the rest of the dataset

Losantville's growing season runs about 164 days, ranking 31,209 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 900 of 927.

Learn more

Before leaning on 47354's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Losantville can differ from the 47354 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Losantville's frost date answer different questions.