Slaughters, KY 42456 Frost Dates
42456, near Slaughters, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
Slaughters 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Slaughters'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 Slaughters's last frost
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 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Slaughters against the rest of the dataset
About 212 days separate Slaughters's last and first frost, putting it 14,689 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 102 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42456: the frost range, on how to read the range around Slaughters's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Slaughters can differ from the 42456 normal.