White Plains, KY 42464 Frost Dates
42464, near White Plains, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 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 White Plains, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
White Plains'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.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
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.
White Plains against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 212 frost-free days, White Plains places 14,647 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 97 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42464: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and White Plains's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around White Plains's dates instead of trusting one.