Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY 40507 Frost Dates
40507, near Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lexington-Fayette urban county in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lexington-Fayette urban county's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lexington-Fayette urban county's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lexington-Fayette urban county against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Lexington-Fayette urban county places 18,867 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 347 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40507: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Lexington-Fayette urban county's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lexington-Fayette urban county's dates instead of trusting one.