Russellville, IN 46175 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Russellville, IN, ZIP 46175
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/12, about 164 frost-free days later.
Russellville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Russellville has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Russellville compares
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Russellville places 31,171 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 892 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Russellville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Russellville's dates instead of trusting one.