Midway, KY 40347 Frost Dates
40347, near Midway, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Midway sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Midway'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
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Midway against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Midway's last and first frost, putting it 18,451 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 307 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40347: the frost range, on how to read the range around Midway's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Midway can differ from the 40347 normal.