Middlesborough, KY 37851 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Middlesborough, KY?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 187 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Middlesborough, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Middlesborough before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Middlesborough's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Middlesborough compares
About 187 days separate Middlesborough's last and first frost, putting it 22,318 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 641 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Middlesborough's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Middlesborough can differ from the 37851 normal.