Terre Haute, IN 47869 Frost Dates
47869, near Terre Haute, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Terre Haute sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Terre Haute's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Terre Haute's last frost
04/15 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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Terre Haute against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Terre Haute's last and first frost, putting it 22,279 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 298 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47869: local microclimates, on what one yard in Terre Haute can differ from the 47869 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Terre Haute's frost date answer different questions.