Campbellsville, KY 42718 Frost Dates
42718, near Campbellsville, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 192 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 Campbellsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Campbellsville'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.
Why 04/15 isn't a guarantee
04/15 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 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Campbellsville against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Campbellsville's last and first frost, putting it 20,216 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 430 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42718: the frost range, on how to read the range around Campbellsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Campbellsville can differ from the 42718 normal.