Liberty, KY 42541 Frost Dates
42541, near Liberty, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Liberty 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
Liberty'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Liberty against the rest of the dataset
About 199 days separate Liberty's last and first frost, putting it 18,139 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 291 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42541: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Liberty's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Liberty's dates instead of trusting one.