Perrysville, IN 47974 Frost Dates
Perrysville, IN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Perrysville sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Perrysville'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
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Perrysville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Perrysville places 28,787 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 777 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47974's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Perrysville can differ from the 47974 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Perrysville's frost date answer different questions.