Dawson Springs, KY 42408 Frost Dates
42408, near Dawson Springs, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 196 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 Dawson Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dawson Springs'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dawson Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Dawson Springs places 18,997 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 384 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42408: local microclimates, on what one yard in Dawson Springs can differ from the 42408 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Dawson Springs's frost date answer different questions.