Oak Grove, KY 42262 Frost Dates
Oak Grove, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Oak Grove 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 Oak Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oak Grove against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Oak Grove's last and first frost, putting it 16,552 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 214 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42262's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Oak Grove can differ from the 42262 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Oak Grove's frost date answer different questions.