Hollyvilla, KY 40272 Frost Dates
40272, near Hollyvilla, KY: the frost window
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.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Hollyvilla, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hollyvilla'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
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.
Hollyvilla against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Hollyvilla places 12,325 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 23 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40272: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hollyvilla's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hollyvilla can differ from the 40272 normal.