Blandville, KY 42035 Frost Dates
Blandville, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 204 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 Blandville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Blandville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 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 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blandville against the rest of the dataset
Blandville's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,802 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 237 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42035's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Blandville can differ from the 42035 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Blandville's frost date answer different questions.