Winslow, IN 47598 Frost Dates
Winslow, 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.
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 Winslow, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Winslow's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Winslow'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.
Winslow against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Winslow's last and first frost, putting it 18,742 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 143 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47598's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Winslow's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Winslow can differ from the 47598 normal.