West Lafayette, IN 47907 Frost Dates
West Lafayette, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 West Lafayette, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until West Lafayette's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Lafayette against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, West Lafayette places 27,780 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 705 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47907's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in West Lafayette can differ from the 47907 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and West Lafayette's frost date answer different questions.