Hawesville, KY 42348 Frost Dates
42348, near Hawesville, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 218 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 Hawesville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hawesville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hawesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 218 frost-free days, Hawesville places 13,307 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 31 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42348: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hawesville can differ from the 42348 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Hawesville's frost date answer different questions.