Auburn, KY 42206 Frost Dates
42206, near Auburn, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Auburn 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
Auburn'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Auburn against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Auburn's last and first frost, putting it 17,826 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 266 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42206: the frost range, on how to read the range around Auburn's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Auburn can differ from the 42206 normal.