Lawrenceburg, KY 40372 Frost Dates
Lawrenceburg, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Lawrenceburg sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 9 weeks until Lawrenceburg'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
04/07 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.
Lawrenceburg against the rest of the dataset
Lawrenceburg's growing season runs about 206 days, ranking 15,974 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 192 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40372's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lawrenceburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lawrenceburg can differ from the 40372 normal.