Wheatland, IN 47597 Frost Dates
Wheatland, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wheatland in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Wheatland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wheatland's last frost
04/10 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 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wheatland against the rest of the dataset
Wheatland's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,807 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 152 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47597's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wheatland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wheatland can differ from the 47597 normal.