Linden, IN 47955 Frost Dates
47955, near Linden, IN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Linden sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Linden's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Linden against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Linden's last and first frost, putting it 24,252 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 441 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47955: the frost range, on how to read the range around Linden's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Linden can differ from the 47955 normal.