Adairville, KY 42202 Frost Dates
Adairville, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Adairville 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Adairville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Adairville's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Adairville against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Adairville's last and first frost, putting it 17,858 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 269 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42202's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Adairville can differ from the 42202 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Adairville's frost date answer different questions.