Cumberland, KY 41821 Frost Dates
41821, near Cumberland, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Cumberland sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Cumberland's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 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.
Cumberland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Cumberland places 20,799 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 496 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41821: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cumberland can differ from the 41821 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Cumberland's frost date answer different questions.