Monticello, IN 47960 Frost Dates
47960, near Monticello, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Monticello 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
Monticello'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 Monticello's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 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.
Monticello against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Monticello's last and first frost, putting it 25,280 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 529 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47960: the frost range, on how to read the range around Monticello's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Monticello can differ from the 47960 normal.