Crab Orchard, KY 40419 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Crab Orchard, KY?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 188 frost-free days later.
Crab Orchard 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 8 weeks of growing season left in Crab Orchard before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Crab Orchard's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Crab Orchard compares
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Crab Orchard places 22,129 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 625 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Crab Orchard's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Crab Orchard's dates instead of trusting one.