Merom, IN 47861 Frost Dates
Merom, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 193 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 Merom, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Merom'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
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Merom against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Merom places 20,075 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 210 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47861's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Merom can differ from the 47861 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Merom's frost date answer different questions.