Versailles, KY 40384 Frost Dates
Versailles, KY: when does the frost end?
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.
Versailles 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 Versailles's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Versailles's last frost
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.
Versailles against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Versailles's last and first frost, putting it 18,387 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 306 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40384's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Versailles's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Versailles can differ from the 40384 normal.