Campbellsburg, KY 40011 Frost Dates
40011, near Campbellsburg, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Campbellsburg in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Campbellsburg's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Campbellsburg's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Campbellsburg against the rest of the dataset
Campbellsburg's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,685 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 219 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40011: local microclimates, on what one yard in Campbellsburg can differ from the 40011 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Campbellsburg's frost date answer different questions.