Russiaville, IN 46979 Frost Dates
Russiaville, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
Russiaville 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 Russiaville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Russiaville's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 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.
Russiaville against the rest of the dataset
About 174 days separate Russiaville's last and first frost, putting it 27,539 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 667 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 46979's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Russiaville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Russiaville can differ from the 46979 normal.