Edmonton, KY 42742 Frost Dates
42742, near Edmonton, 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.
Edmonton 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
Edmonton'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.
Edmonton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Edmonton places 20,403 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 460 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42742: the frost range, on how to read the range around Edmonton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Edmonton can differ from the 42742 normal.