Hardin, KY 42036 Frost Dates
Hardin, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Hardin sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Hardin'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
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hardin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Hardin places 12,563 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 25 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42036's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hardin's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hardin's dates instead of trusting one.