Corbin, KY 40701 Frost Dates
Corbin, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Corbin 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 8 weeks until Corbin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Corbin's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Corbin against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Corbin's last and first frost, putting it 20,236 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 435 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40701's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Corbin can differ from the 40701 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Corbin's frost date answer different questions.