Linton, IN 47441 Frost Dates
47441, near Linton, IN: the frost window
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Linton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Linton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Linton against the rest of the dataset
Linton's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,666 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 130 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47441: local microclimates, on what one yard in Linton can differ from the 47441 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Linton's frost date answer different questions.