Bowling Green, KY 42128 Frost Dates
42128, near Bowling Green, KY: the frost window
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. 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
Bowling Green'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 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
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Bowling Green places 15,517 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 160 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42128: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bowling Green's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bowling Green's dates instead of trusting one.