Nicholasville, KY 40356 Frost Dates
40356, near Nicholasville, KY: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Nicholasville 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
Nicholasville'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.
The actual range around Nicholasville's last frost
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.
Nicholasville against the rest of the dataset
Nicholasville's growing season runs about 206 days, ranking 15,952 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 187 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40356: local microclimates, on what one yard in Nicholasville can differ from the 40356 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Nicholasville's frost date answer different questions.