Kevil, KY 42053 Frost Dates
42053, near Kevil, 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.
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 Kevil, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kevil'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 Kevil'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.
Kevil against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Kevil's last and first frost, putting it 16,383 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 211 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42053: local microclimates, on what one yard in Kevil can differ from the 42053 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Kevil's frost date answer different questions.