Evansville, IN 47713 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Evansville, IN, ZIP 47713
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 206 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Evansville has about 9 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
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Evansville compares
About 206 days separate Evansville's last and first frost, putting it 15,908 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 46 of 927.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Evansville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Evansville's dates instead of trusting one.