Evansville, IN 47705 Frost Dates
47705, near Evansville, IN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Evansville 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Evansville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Evansville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Evansville places 15,902 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 40 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47705: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Evansville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Evansville's dates instead of trusting one.