Fordsville, KY 42361 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Fordsville, KY, ZIP 42361
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 187 frost-free days later.
Fordsville sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Fordsville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Fordsville's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fordsville compares
About 187 days separate Fordsville's last and first frost, putting it 22,570 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 687 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Fordsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Fordsville's dates instead of trusting one.