Tell City, IN 47586 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Tell City, IN?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 218 frost-free days later.
Tell City sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Tell City before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Tell City's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Tell City compares
At roughly 218 frost-free days, Tell City places 13,254 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 21 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Tell City's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Tell City's dates instead of trusting one.