Buckhorn, KY 41754 Frost Dates
41754, near Buckhorn, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 188 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 Buckhorn, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Buckhorn'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
04/19 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 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buckhorn against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Buckhorn places 22,262 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 640 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41754: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Buckhorn's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Buckhorn's dates instead of trusting one.