South Shore, KY 41174 Frost Dates
Frost dates for South Shore, KY, ZIP 41174
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 191 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 South Shore, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around South Shore 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 South Shore's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How South Shore compares
About 191 days separate South Shore's last and first frost, putting it 20,831 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 503 of 909.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in South Shore can differ from the 41174 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and South Shore's frost date answer different questions.