Morehead, KY 40313 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Morehead, KY, ZIP 40313
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 189 frost-free days later.
Morehead sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Morehead has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Morehead's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Morehead compares
About 189 days separate Morehead's last and first frost, putting it 21,505 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 557 of 909.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Morehead can differ from the 40313 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Morehead's frost date answer different questions.