Watterson Park, KY 40281 Frost Dates
Watterson Park, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. 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 Watterson Park 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 Watterson Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Watterson Park's last frost
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.
Watterson Park against the rest of the dataset
Watterson Park's growing season runs about 214 days, ranking 14,307 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 59 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40281's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Watterson Park can differ from the 40281 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Watterson Park's frost date answer different questions.