Center Point, IN 47845 Frost Dates
Center Point, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Center Point sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 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 Center Point'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
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Center Point against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Center Point places 20,575 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 231 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47845's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Center Point's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Center Point's dates instead of trusting one.