Georgetown, KY 40324 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Georgetown, KY, ZIP 40324
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 196 frost-free days later.
Georgetown 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 Georgetown has about 9 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Georgetown compares
Georgetown's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 18,911 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 376 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Georgetown's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Georgetown's dates instead of trusting one.