Leitchfield, KY 42754 Frost Dates
42754, near Leitchfield, KY: the frost window
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Leitchfield 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
Leitchfield's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leitchfield against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Leitchfield's last and first frost, putting it 28,252 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 853 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42754: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Leitchfield's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Leitchfield's dates instead of trusting one.