Shively, KY 40214 Frost Dates
Shively, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Shively in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Shively's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Shively's last frost
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.
Shively against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate Shively's last and first frost, putting it 12,228 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 14 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40214's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Shively's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Shively's dates instead of trusting one.