Drakesboro, KY 42337 Frost Dates
42337, near Drakesboro, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 187 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 Drakesboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Drakesboro's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/15 isn't a guarantee
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Drakesboro against the rest of the dataset
Drakesboro's growing season runs about 187 days, ranking 22,565 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 684 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42337: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Drakesboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Drakesboro's dates instead of trusting one.