Vine Grove, KY 40162 Frost Dates
Vine Grove, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Vine Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Vine Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vine Grove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Vine Grove places 20,751 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 487 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40162's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Vine Grove's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Vine Grove can differ from the 40162 normal.