Cloverport, KY 40111 Frost Dates
40111, near Cloverport, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
Cloverport sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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
Cloverport's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cloverport against the rest of the dataset
Cloverport's growing season runs about 218 days, ranking 13,303 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 29 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40111: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Cloverport's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cloverport's dates instead of trusting one.