Irvington, KY 40176 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Irvington, KY, ZIP 40176
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 172 frost-free days later.
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 Irvington, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Irvington has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Irvington compares
About 172 days separate Irvington's last and first frost, putting it 28,379 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 861 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Irvington's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Irvington's dates instead of trusting one.