Paducah, KY 42027 Frost Dates
42027, near Paducah, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Paducah 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
Paducah'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 Paducah's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paducah against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Paducah places 15,958 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 189 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42027: local microclimates, on what one yard in Paducah can differ from the 42027 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Paducah's frost date answer different questions.