Bowling Green, KY 42104 Frost Dates
Bowling Green, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bowling Green in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Bowling Green's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bowling Green's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bowling Green against the rest of the dataset
Bowling Green's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,515 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 158 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42104's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bowling Green can differ from the 42104 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bowling Green's frost date answer different questions.