Caneyville, KY 42762 Frost Dates
42762, near Caneyville, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Caneyville 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
Caneyville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Caneyville against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Caneyville's last and first frost, putting it 28,442 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 867 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42762: local microclimates, on what one yard in Caneyville can differ from the 42762 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Caneyville's frost date answer different questions.