Pembroke, KY 42266 Frost Dates
Pembroke, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 207 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Pembroke, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Pembroke's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pembroke's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pembroke against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 207 frost-free days, Pembroke places 15,853 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 173 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42266's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pembroke can differ from the 42266 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pembroke's frost date answer different questions.