Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY 40512 Frost Dates
Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/13, about 228 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
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 Lexington-Fayette urban county, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Lexington-Fayette urban county's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 18,871 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 351 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40512's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lexington-Fayette urban county can differ from the 40512 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Lexington-Fayette urban county's frost date answer different questions.