Evansville, IN 47714 Frost Dates
Evansville, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Evansville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Evansville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 15,909 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 47 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47714's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Evansville can differ from the 47714 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Evansville's frost date answer different questions.