Wickliffe, KY 42087 Frost Dates
Wickliffe, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. 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 Wickliffe, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Wickliffe's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wickliffe's last frost
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.
Wickliffe against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Wickliffe's last and first frost, putting it 16,697 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 224 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42087's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Wickliffe's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wickliffe's dates instead of trusting one.