Mount Sterling, KY 40353 Frost Dates
Mount Sterling, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 175 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 Mount Sterling, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Mount Sterling's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mount Sterling's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Sterling against the rest of the dataset
Mount Sterling's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 26,850 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 825 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40353's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Mount Sterling's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Mount Sterling can differ from the 40353 normal.