Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY 40536 Frost Dates
40536, near Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY: the frost window
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.
Lexington-Fayette urban county 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.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 196 days separate Lexington-Fayette urban county's last and first frost, putting it 18,879 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 359 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40536: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lexington-Fayette urban county's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lexington-Fayette urban county can differ from the 40536 normal.