Owensboro, KY 42377 Frost Dates
Owensboro, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. 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 Owensboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Owensboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Owensboro against the rest of the dataset
Owensboro's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,715 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 108 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42377's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Owensboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Owensboro can differ from the 42377 normal.