Nebo, KY 42441 Frost Dates
42441, near Nebo, KY: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Nebo in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Nebo'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.
The actual range around Nebo's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Nebo against the rest of the dataset
Nebo's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 17,046 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 247 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42441: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Nebo's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Nebo's dates instead of trusting one.