New Market, IN 47965 Frost Dates
New Market, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
New Market 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
With roughly 6 weeks until New Market's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New Market's last frost
04/27 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 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Market against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate New Market's last and first frost, putting it 30,137 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 855 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47965's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and New Market's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around New Market's dates instead of trusting one.