Russellville, KY 42276 Frost Dates
42276, near Russellville, KY: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Russellville 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
Russellville'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.
Why 04/09 isn't a guarantee
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.
Russellville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Russellville places 17,747 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 260 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42276: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Russellville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Russellville's dates instead of trusting one.