Cayuga, IN 47928 Frost Dates
47928, near Cayuga, IN: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cayuga in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cayuga'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 Cayuga's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cayuga against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Cayuga places 28,734 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 772 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47928: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cayuga's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cayuga can differ from the 47928 normal.