Batesville, IN 47006 Frost Dates
Batesville, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Batesville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Batesville'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
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Batesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Batesville places 29,698 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 827 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47006's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Batesville can differ from the 47006 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Batesville's frost date answer different questions.