Blandville, KY 42060 Frost Dates
42060, near Blandville, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Blandville sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Blandville'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 Blandville'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.
Blandville against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Blandville's last and first frost, putting it 16,429 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 212 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42060: local microclimates, on what one yard in Blandville can differ from the 42060 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Blandville's frost date answer different questions.