Morganfield, KY 42437 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Morganfield, KY, ZIP 42437
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 209 frost-free days later.
Morganfield 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 Morganfield has about 9 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 Morganfield's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Morganfield compares
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Morganfield places 15,246 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 141 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Morganfield's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Morganfield's dates instead of trusting one.