Inez, KY 41224 Frost Dates
Inez, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Inez 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 Inez's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Inez against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Inez's last and first frost, putting it 22,905 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 697 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41224's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Inez can differ from the 41224 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Inez's frost date answer different questions.