Edmonton, KY 42214 Frost Dates
42214, near Edmonton, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Edmonton in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Edmonton'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
04/05 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 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edmonton against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Edmonton's last and first frost, putting it 14,793 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 120 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42214: local microclimates, on what one yard in Edmonton can differ from the 42214 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Edmonton's frost date answer different questions.