Owenton, KY 40355 Frost Dates
40355, near Owenton, KY: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Owenton 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
Owenton'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 Owenton's last frost
04/23 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 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Owenton against the rest of the dataset
Owenton's growing season runs about 179 days, ranking 25,363 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 800 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40355: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Owenton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Owenton's dates instead of trusting one.