Frost dates for Baxter, Kentucky
Half of years have their last spring frost by April 15, but 1 year in 10 still frosts after May 1.
A frost date is really a percentile from 30 years of records at a nearby weather station: in about half of years a frost still comes after the median date. Both numbers are below, so you can choose the risk yourself.
The odds
Last spring frost
How often a frost still comes on or after each date.
- 1 year in 10
- May 1
- 1 year in 5
- April 24
- 3 years in 10
- April 20
- 2 years in 5
- April 18
- Half of years (the median)
- April 15
First fall freeze
How often the first freeze comes on or before each date.
- 1 year in 10
- October 17
- 1 year in 5
- October 21
- 3 years in 10
- October 24
- 2 years in 5
- October 27
- Half of years (the median)
- October 30
- Growing season
- about 197 days
- Hardiness zone nearby
- 7a
- Summer days
- a usual high of about 29 °C84 °F
- Lettuce and spinach run to seed
- May to September, in hot, long days (how we know)
Summer and rain
A growing garden needs about 25 mm1 in of water a week, rain and watering together. Here is what a normal month brings.
Month by month
- January
- high ~7 °C45 °F · low ~-3 °C26 °F · rain ~104 mm4.1 in
- February
- high ~10 °C49 °F · low ~-2 °C29 °F · rain ~109 mm4.3 in
- March
- high ~14 °C58 °F · low ~1 °C34 °F · rain ~127 mm5 in
- April
- high ~20 °C68 °F · low ~6 °C42 °F · rain ~123 mm4.9 in
- May
- high ~24 °C76 °F · low ~11 °C52 °F · rain ~120 mm4.7 in
- June
- high ~28 °C82 °F · low ~16 °C61 °F · rain ~120 mm4.7 in
- July
- high ~29 °C85 °F · low ~18 °C65 °F · rain ~121 mm4.8 in
- August
- high ~29 °C85 °F · low ~18 °C64 °F · rain ~113 mm4.5 in
- September
- high ~26 °C80 °F · low ~14 °C57 °F · rain ~88 mm3.5 in
- October
- high ~21 °C70 °F · low ~7 °C45 °F · rain ~81 mm3.2 in
- November
- high ~14 °C58 °F · low ~1 °C34 °F · rain ~91 mm3.6 in
- December
- high ~9 °C49 °F · low ~-1 °C29 °F · rain ~128 mm5 in
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, the Baxter station (listed by NOAA as Baxter, USC00150450), at 36.86, -83.33. These are that station’s own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground. The planner finds the nearest station to your garden and lowers its confidence with distance, so no number is presented as if it were measured in your garden.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a few hundred feet away does not. No table can know that about your garden. A few seasons of your own logged frosts can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
24263, 24281, 40801, 40806, 40808, 40810, 40815, 40816, 40818, 40819, 40820, 40824…
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40827, 40828, 40829, 40830, 40831, 40840, 40844, 40845, 40847, 40849, 40854, 40856, 40858, 40863, 40865, 40870, 40873, 40874, 40902, 40913, 40958, 40964, 40979, 40988, 41735, 41763, 41764, 41775, 41777, 41819.
Nearby stations
The nearest stations and how their last-frost dates compare. Together they show how frost varies across your area.
- Big Stone Gap, VA, last frost by April 20
- Whitesburg 2 SE, KY, last frost by April 21
- Norris, TN, last frost by April 22
- Prestonsburg 3 WSW, KY, last frost by April 23
- Breaks Interstate Park, VA, last frost by April 22
- Elizabethton, TN, last frost by April 19
Other stations in Kentucky.
- Louisville Mcalpine, KY, last frost by March 31
- Rochester Ferry, KY, last frost by April 15
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