La Center, KY 42022 Frost Dates
42022, near La Center, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts La Center 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
La Center'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.
The actual range around La Center's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Center against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, La Center places 16,370 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 209 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42022: the frost range, on how to read the range around La Center's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in La Center can differ from the 42022 normal.