Cloverport, KY 47574 Frost Dates
Cloverport, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cloverport 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 Cloverport'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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cloverport against the rest of the dataset
Cloverport's growing season runs about 218 days, ranking 13,304 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 30 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47574's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Cloverport's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cloverport's dates instead of trusting one.