Danville, IN 46122 Frost Dates
Danville, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Danville 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Danville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Danville against the rest of the dataset
About 178 days separate Danville's last and first frost, putting it 25,641 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 581 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46122's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Danville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Danville's dates instead of trusting one.