Morgantown, KY 42201 Frost Dates
42201, near Morgantown, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Morgantown sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Morgantown's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/15 isn't a guarantee
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Morgantown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Morgantown places 22,395 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 662 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42201: the frost range, on how to read the range around Morgantown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Morgantown can differ from the 42201 normal.