Nashville, IN 47435 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Nashville, IN, ZIP 47435
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 192 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Nashville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Nashville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Nashville's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Nashville compares
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Nashville places 20,449 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 222 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Nashville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Nashville's dates instead of trusting one.