Watterson Park, KY 40293 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Watterson Park, KY?
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 214 frost-free days later.
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 Watterson Park, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Watterson Park before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
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
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Watterson Park places 14,314 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 66 of 909.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Watterson Park can differ from the 40293 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Watterson Park's frost date answer different questions.