Booneville, KY 41364 Frost Dates
41364, near Booneville, KY: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Booneville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Booneville'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 04/16 isn't a guarantee
04/16 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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Booneville against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Booneville's last and first frost, putting it 20,588 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 478 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41364: 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.