Ferdinand, IN 47532 Frost Dates
47532, near Ferdinand, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, 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 Ferdinand, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ferdinand'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 Ferdinand's last frost
04/11 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 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ferdinand against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Ferdinand's last and first frost, putting it 18,697 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 136 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47532: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ferdinand's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ferdinand can differ from the 47532 normal.