Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY 40581 Frost Dates
Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY: when does the frost end?
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.
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
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 18,891 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 371 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40581's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Lexington-Fayette urban county's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lexington-Fayette urban county's dates instead of trusting one.