Parkway Village, KY 40209 Frost Dates
Parkway Village, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 222 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Parkway Village's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Parkway Village against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Parkway Village places 12,316 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 20 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40209's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Parkway Village can differ from the 40209 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Parkway Village's frost date answer different questions.