Burnside, KY 42518 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Burnside, KY?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 206 frost-free days later.
Burnside 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
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Burnside before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Burnside'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. 04/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Burnside compares
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Burnside places 16,080 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 200 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Burnside's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Burnside can differ from the 42518 normal.