Yorktown, IN 47396 Frost Dates
47396, near Yorktown, IN: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Yorktown in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Yorktown's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Yorktown'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.
Yorktown against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Yorktown's last and first frost, putting it 22,750 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 323 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47396: the frost range, on how to read the range around Yorktown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Yorktown can differ from the 47396 normal.