Parkway Village, KY 40203 Frost Dates
40203, near Parkway Village, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Parkway Village 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
Parkway Village'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 03/31 isn't a guarantee
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Parkway Village against the rest of the dataset
Parkway Village's growing season runs about 225 days, ranking 11,462 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 6 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40203: the frost range, on how to read the range around Parkway Village's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Parkway Village can differ from the 40203 normal.