Brownsboro Farm, KY 40241 Frost Dates
40241, near Brownsboro Farm, KY: the frost window
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brownsboro Farm 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
Brownsboro Farm'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Brownsboro Farm against the rest of the dataset
About 214 days separate Brownsboro Farm's last and first frost, putting it 14,332 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 76 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40241: the frost range, on how to read the range around Brownsboro Farm's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Brownsboro Farm can differ from the 40241 normal.