Tompkinsville, KY 42167 Frost Dates
Tompkinsville, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 174 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 Tompkinsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Tompkinsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tompkinsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Tompkinsville places 27,498 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 834 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42167's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Tompkinsville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Tompkinsville's dates instead of trusting one.