Parker City, IN 47368 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Parker City, IN, ZIP 47368
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 173 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 Parker City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Parker City has about 7 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.
Why 04/25 isn't a guarantee
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Parker City compares
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Parker City places 27,973 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 723 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Parker City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Parker City's dates instead of trusting one.