Muldraugh, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Muldraugh, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Muldraugh lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Muldraugh — the short answer
Muldraugh, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 335 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 335 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Muldraugh's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Muldraugh's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Muldraugh
Each reading below is measured for Muldraugh itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMuldraugh runs about 222 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMuldraugh sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Muldraugh is in
Muldraugh sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Muldraugh's own centroid rather than borrowed from Meade County.
What Grows in Muldraugh
Every plant below cleared Muldraugh's own zone 7a and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Muldraugh?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Muldraugh
Survey cells within 31 miles of Muldraugh checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 79 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Muldraugh
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Muldraugh. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Dodges StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Wagner Used CarsUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Watts Chevron Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Ashland Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- City Of MuldraughUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- Longs Sunoco Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Fort Knox Self ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- BP Oil CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Dresel RentalsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Watts Marathon Bulk PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Kingdom Muffler & Brake CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Watts Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Muldraugh's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Muldraugh.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Muldraugh
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Muldraugh
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Muldraugh, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Muldraugh — Superfund (6 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Muldraugh
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Your land is one point inside Muldraugh
Everything above resolves to Muldraugh as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 335 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Muldraugh Average
Muldraugh Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Muldraugh
- ●One soil character for all of Muldraugh
- ●Frost dates read at Muldraugh's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Muldraugh's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Muldraugh
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Muldraugh, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Muldraugh — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Muldraugh
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Muldraugh’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Muldraugh
When does frost risk typically end in Muldraugh?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Muldraugh typically lands around Mar 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 19.
When is the first frost in Muldraugh?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Muldraugh typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Muldraugh?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Muldraugh sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 23, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Muldraugh?
The federal record around Muldraugh is a meaningful one — 234 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (123), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Muldraugh?
From about Oct 7 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Muldraugh's scale — its 7a band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Muldraugh's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Muldraugh’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Muldraugh's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 335 acres it covers and 234 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Muldraugh's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Muldraugh's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 6 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 234 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Muldraugh, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Muldraugh's boundary and the 335 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Muldraugh's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Muldraugh checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Muldraugh's 335 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Meade County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Meade County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Meade County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Muldraugh's 335 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Muldraugh you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 335 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Muldraugh-wide figureread your own land →
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