Campton, KY 41301 Frost Dates
41301, near Campton, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
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 Campton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Campton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Campton against the rest of the dataset
Campton's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,557 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 471 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41301: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Campton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Campton's dates instead of trusting one.