Evarts, KY 40815 Frost Dates
Evarts, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Evarts 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Evarts's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Evarts'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 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Evarts against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Evarts's last and first frost, putting it 18,768 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 320 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40815's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Evarts can differ from the 40815 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Evarts's frost date answer different questions.