Bowling Green, KY 42103 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Bowling Green, KY?
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. 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
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Bowling Green before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
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 15,514 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 157 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Bowling Green's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Bowling Green can differ from the 42103 normal.