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Nashville, IN 47448 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Nashville, IN, ZIP 47448

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 192 frost-free days later.

Nashville 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.

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.

How much risk comes with planting early here

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 20,450 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 223 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.