Martin, KY 41632 Frost Dates
41632, near Martin, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Martin in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Martin'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
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Martin against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Martin's last and first frost, putting it 23,989 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 748 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41632: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Martin's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Martin's dates instead of trusting one.