Munfordville, KY 42765 Frost Dates
42765, near Munfordville, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Munfordville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Munfordville'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
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Munfordville against the rest of the dataset
Munfordville's growing season runs about 178 days, ranking 25,770 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 808 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 42765: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Munfordville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Munfordville's dates instead of trusting one.