Medaryville, IN 47957 Frost Dates
47957, near Medaryville, IN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Medaryville sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Medaryville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Medaryville against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Medaryville's last and first frost, putting it 28,038 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 737 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47957: local microclimates, on what one yard in Medaryville can differ from the 47957 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Medaryville's frost date answer different questions.