Mockingbird Valley, KY 47133 Frost Dates
47133, near Mockingbird Valley, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 225 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 Mockingbird Valley, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mockingbird Valley's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Mockingbird Valley's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mockingbird Valley against the rest of the dataset
About 225 days separate Mockingbird Valley's last and first frost, putting it 11,498 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 10 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47133: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mockingbird Valley can differ from the 47133 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Mockingbird Valley's frost date answer different questions.