Pewee Valley, KY 40056 Frost Dates
Pewee Valley, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pewee Valley in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Pewee Valley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pewee Valley's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pewee Valley against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Pewee Valley's last and first frost, putting it 19,967 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 412 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40056's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pewee Valley can differ from the 40056 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Pewee Valley's frost date answer different questions.