Russiaville, IN 46995 Frost Dates
46995, near Russiaville, IN: the frost window
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
Russiaville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/27 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Russiaville places 27,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 668 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 46995: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Russiaville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Russiaville's dates instead of trusting one.