Sellersburg, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sellersburg, 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 Sellersburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sellersburg — the short answer
Sellersburg, Indiana: USDA zone 7a, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Sellersburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sellersburg's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sellersburg
Each reading below is measured for Sellersburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSellersburg runs about 232 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
MeasuredSellersburg 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 Sellersburg is in
Sellersburg sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sellersburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clark County.
What Grows in Sellersburg
Every plant below cleared Sellersburg's own zone 7a and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sellersburg?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Sellersburg
Survey cells within 31 miles of Sellersburg checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 51 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sellersburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sellersburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WATSON RURAL WATER COMPANYPFAS · 0 ft
- SELLERSBURG WATER DEPARTMENTPFAS · 0 ft
- SILVER CREEK WATER CORPORATIONPFAS · 0 ft
- INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - S. INDIANAPFAS · 0 ft
- ASHLAND OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- HAAS CABINET COToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- HAAS CABINET COBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- CENTURY INDUSTRIES LLCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Haas Cabinet Company IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- IVY TECH STATE COLLEGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- IVY TECH SELLERSBURGBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- CARMERICA TIRES & SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sellersburg'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 Sellersburg.
Total Sites
945
within ~10 miles of Sellersburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
9 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sellersburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sellersburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sellersburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sellersburg — Toxics Release Inventory (80 sites) and PFAS (8 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Sellersburg
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sellersburg average
Your land is one point inside Sellersburg
Everything above resolves to Sellersburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Sellersburg Average
Sellersburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Sellersburg
- ●One soil character for all of Sellersburg
- ●Frost dates read at Sellersburg's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sellersburg's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sellersburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sellersburg, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sellersburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sellersburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sellersburg average
How we know this about Sellersburg
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 Sellersburg’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 Sellersburg
When does frost risk typically end in Sellersburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sellersburg typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Sellersburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sellersburg typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sellersburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sellersburg sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 28, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sellersburg?
The federal record around Sellersburg is a meaningful one — 945 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (549), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 Sellersburg?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sellersburg's scale — its 7a band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sellersburg'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 Sellersburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sellersburg's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,743 acres it covers and 945 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sellersburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sellersburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 11 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 945 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sellersburg, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sellersburg's boundary and the 4,743 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sellersburg's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Sellersburg 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 Sellersburg's 4,743 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clark County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clark 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 Clark County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sellersburg's 4,743 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sellersburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,743 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 Sellersburg-wide figureread your own land →
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