Booneville, KY 41386 Frost Dates
41386, near Booneville, KY: the frost window
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 189 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 04/17 isn't a guarantee
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Booneville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Booneville places 21,755 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 585 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41386: the frost range, on how to read the range around Booneville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Booneville can differ from the 41386 normal.