Birdseye, IN 47580 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Birdseye, IN, ZIP 47580
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 204 frost-free days later.
Birdseye 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 Birdseye 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 Birdseye's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Birdseye compares
About 204 days separate Birdseye's last and first frost, putting it 16,730 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 80 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Birdseye's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Birdseye's dates instead of trusting one.