Mockingbird Valley, KY 47199 Frost Dates
47199, near Mockingbird Valley, KY: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. 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.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Mockingbird Valley places 11,501 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 13 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 47199: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mockingbird Valley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mockingbird Valley can differ from the 47199 normal.