Burgin, KY 40310 Frost Dates
40310, near Burgin, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 206 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 Burgin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Burgin's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burgin against the rest of the dataset
Burgin's growing season runs about 206 days, ranking 16,063 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 196 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40310: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Burgin's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Burgin's dates instead of trusting one.