Hardin, KY 42054 Frost Dates
Hardin, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 209 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 9 weeks until Hardin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hardin'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 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hardin against the rest of the dataset
Hardin's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,368 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 150 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42054'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.