Barbourville, KY 40906 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Barbourville, KY, ZIP 40906
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 187 frost-free days later.
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 Barbourville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Barbourville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Barbourville's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Barbourville compares
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Barbourville places 22,379 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 651 of 909.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Barbourville can differ from the 40906 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Barbourville's frost date answer different questions.