Livingston, KY 40445 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Livingston, KY?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 189 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 Livingston, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Livingston before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Livingston'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. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Livingston compares
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Livingston places 21,754 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 584 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Livingston's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Livingston can differ from the 40445 normal.