Stanton, KY 40380 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Stanton, KY, ZIP 40380
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 184 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stanton in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Stanton has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Stanton's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Stanton compares
At roughly 184 frost-free days, Stanton places 23,542 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 704 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Stanton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Stanton's dates instead of trusting one.