Paris, KY 40361 Frost Dates
Paris, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Paris 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Paris's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paris against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Paris places 21,928 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 593 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40361's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Paris's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Paris can differ from the 40361 normal.