Newport, IN 47831 Frost Dates
Newport, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newport in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 7 weeks until Newport's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Newport's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newport against the rest of the dataset
Newport's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,793 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 778 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47831's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Newport can differ from the 47831 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Newport's frost date answer different questions.