Scottsburg, IN 47177 Frost Dates
47177, near Scottsburg, IN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. 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
Scottsburg's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Scottsburg's last frost
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
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Scottsburg places 23,127 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 370 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47177: the frost range, on how to read the range around Scottsburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Scottsburg can differ from the 47177 normal.