Frenchburg, KY 40387 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Frenchburg, KY?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 169 frost-free days later.
Frenchburg 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Frenchburg before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Frenchburg's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Frenchburg compares
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Frenchburg places 29,553 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 899 of 909.
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