Santa Claus, IN 47579 Frost Dates
Santa Claus, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Santa Claus sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Santa Claus's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Santa Claus against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Santa Claus's last and first frost, putting it 18,691 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 133 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47579's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Santa Claus's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Santa Claus's dates instead of trusting one.