Berea, KY 40403 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Berea, KY?
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 213 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Berea, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Berea before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Berea's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Berea compares
About 213 days separate Berea's last and first frost, putting it 14,459 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 86 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Berea's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Berea's dates instead of trusting one.