Owensville, IN 47665 Frost Dates
Owensville, IN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Owensville 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Owensville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Owensville's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Owensville against the rest of the dataset
Owensville's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,306 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IN, it ranks 32 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47665's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Owensville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Owensville's dates instead of trusting one.