Farmersburg, IN 47850 Frost Dates
47850, near Farmersburg, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 201 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 Farmersburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Farmersburg's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Farmersburg against the rest of the dataset
Farmersburg's growing season runs about 201 days, ranking 17,580 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 105 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47850: the frost range, on how to read the range around Farmersburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Farmersburg can differ from the 47850 normal.