Bowling Green, KY 42101 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bowling Green, KY, ZIP 42101
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 208 frost-free days later.
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 Bowling Green, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Bowling Green has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Bowling Green's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bowling Green compares
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Bowling Green places 15,512 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 155 of 909.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Bowling Green can differ from the 42101 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bowling Green's frost date answer different questions.