Watterson Park, KY 40259 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Watterson Park, KY, ZIP 40259
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 214 frost-free days later.
Watterson Park 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Watterson Park has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Watterson Park compares
About 214 days separate Watterson Park's last and first frost, putting it 14,301 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 53 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Watterson Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Watterson Park can differ from the 40259 normal.