Booneville, KY 40983 Frost Dates
40983, near Booneville, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Booneville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Booneville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Booneville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Booneville places 25,933 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 816 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40983: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Booneville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Booneville's dates instead of trusting one.