Crane, IN 47522 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Crane, IN, ZIP 47522
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 202 frost-free days later.
Crane sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Crane has about 9 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.
The actual range around Crane's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Crane compares
About 202 days separate Crane's last and first frost, putting it 17,376 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 94 of 927.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Crane's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Crane can differ from the 47522 normal.