Burnside, KY 42519 Frost Dates
Burnside, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 206 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 Burnside, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Burnside's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burnside against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Burnside places 16,081 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 201 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 42519's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Burnside can differ from the 42519 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Burnside's frost date answer different questions.