Scottsburg, IN 47126 Frost Dates
Scottsburg, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Scottsburg in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Scottsburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/18 isn't a guarantee
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scottsburg against the rest of the dataset
About 185 days separate Scottsburg's last and first frost, putting it 23,125 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 368 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47126's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Scottsburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Scottsburg can differ from the 47126 normal.