Burnside, KY 42544 Frost Dates
42544, near Burnside, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Burnside's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Burnside's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burnside against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Burnside places 21,260 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 550 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42544: local microclimates, on what one yard in Burnside can differ from the 42544 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Burnside's frost date answer different questions.