Mockingbird Valley, KY 40206 Frost Dates
Mockingbird Valley, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Mockingbird Valley 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Mockingbird 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 Mockingbird Valley's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mockingbird Valley against the rest of the dataset
About 214 days separate Mockingbird Valley's last and first frost, putting it 14,382 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 84 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40206's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Mockingbird Valley can differ from the 40206 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Mockingbird Valley's frost date answer different questions.