Crane, IN 47453 Frost Dates
Crane, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 202 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 Crane, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Crane's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Crane's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Crane against the rest of the dataset
Crane's growing season runs about 202 days, ranking 17,375 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 93 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47453's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Crane's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Crane's dates instead of trusting one.