Livermore, KY 42352 Frost Dates
42352, near Livermore, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 211 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 Livermore, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Livermore'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.
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 03/17 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.
Livermore against the rest of the dataset
Livermore's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,809 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 122 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42352: the frost range, on how to read the range around Livermore's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Livermore can differ from the 42352 normal.