Evansville, IN 47734 Frost Dates
47734, near Evansville, IN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. 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
About 206 days separate Evansville's last and first frost, putting it 15,920 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 58 of 927.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47734: local microclimates, on what one yard in Evansville can differ from the 47734 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Evansville's frost date answer different questions.