Mockingbird Valley, KY 47144 Frost Dates
Mockingbird Valley, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mockingbird Valley 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Mockingbird Valley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 11,500 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 12 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47144's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Mockingbird Valley's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Mockingbird Valley can differ from the 47144 normal.