Oakland, KY 42159 Frost Dates
Oakland, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. 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 Oakland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Oakland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Oakland's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oakland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Oakland places 16,775 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 231 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42159's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Oakland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Oakland can differ from the 42159 normal.