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Millersburg, KY 40348 Frost Dates

40348, near Millersburg, KY: the frost window

Zone 6b

Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Millersburg, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Millersburg's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Millersburg's last frost

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Millersburg against the rest of the dataset

About 188 days separate Millersburg's last and first frost, putting it 22,130 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 626 of 909.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 40348: local microclimates, on what one yard in Millersburg can differ from the 40348 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Millersburg's frost date answer different questions.