New Richmond, IN 47967 Frost Dates
47967, near New Richmond, 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.
New Richmond 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
New Richmond'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.
The actual range around New Richmond's last frost
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.
New Richmond against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, New Richmond places 24,306 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 458 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47967: local microclimates, on what one yard in New Richmond can differ from the 47967 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and New Richmond's frost date answer different questions.