Inez, KY 41262 Frost Dates
41262, near Inez, KY: the frost window
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. 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
Inez's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
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
Inez's growing season runs about 186 days, ranking 22,906 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 698 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41262: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Inez's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Inez's dates instead of trusting one.