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Connersville, IN 47322 Frost Dates

47322, near Connersville, IN: the frost window

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Connersville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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

Connersville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Connersville against the rest of the dataset

About 164 days separate Connersville's last and first frost, putting it 30,869 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 870 of 927.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 47322: the frost range, on how to read the range around Connersville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Connersville can differ from the 47322 normal.