Chrisney, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Chrisney, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Chrisney lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Chrisney — the short answer
Chrisney, Indiana: USDA zone 7a, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 452 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~227
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 452 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Chrisney's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chrisney's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chrisney
Each reading below is measured for Chrisney itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChrisney runs about 227 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredChrisney sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Chrisney is in
Chrisney sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chrisney's own centroid rather than borrowed from Spencer County.
What Grows in Chrisney
Every plant below cleared Chrisney's own zone 7a and its 227-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chrisney?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Chrisney
Survey cells within 31 miles of Chrisney checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 124 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chrisney
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chrisney. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AT & T CorporationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- IN DOT Tell City Sub District Chrisney Unit 5Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CIRCLE S FOODMARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Spencer County Highway DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Chrisney FertilizerUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- INDOT CHRISNEY UNITBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- PVS STEEL SERVICES INCBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- PVS STEEL SERVICES INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.8 mi
- AK STEEL ROCKPORT WORKSBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- AK STEEL ROCKPORT WORKSToxics Release Inventory · 1.8 mi
- Indiana Michigan Power Rockport PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- LINCOLN COUNTRY CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chrisney's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Chrisney.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chrisney
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chrisney
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chrisney, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Chrisney — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Chrisney
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Chrisney
Everything above resolves to Chrisney as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 452 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Chrisney Average
Chrisney Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Chrisney
- ●One soil character for all of Chrisney
- ●Frost dates read at Chrisney's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chrisney's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chrisney
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chrisney, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chrisney averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chrisney — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Chrisney average
How we know this about Chrisney
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Chrisney’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Chrisney
When does frost risk typically end in Chrisney?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chrisney typically lands around Mar 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 17.
When is the first frost in Chrisney?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chrisney typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chrisney?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chrisney sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 26, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chrisney?
The federal record around Chrisney is a meaningful one — 102 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (59), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Chrisney?
From about Oct 10 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chrisney's scale — its 7a band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chrisney's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Chrisney’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chrisney's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 452 acres it covers and 102 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chrisney's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chrisney's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 9 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 102 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chrisney, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chrisney's boundary and the 452 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chrisney's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Chrisney checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Chrisney's 452 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Spencer County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Spencer County
- The growing challenges every Indiana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Indiana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Spencer County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chrisney's 452 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chrisney you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 452 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Chrisney-wide figureread your own land →