Salt Lick, KY 40371 Frost Dates
Salt Lick, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 189 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 Salt Lick, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Salt Lick's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/17 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 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Salt Lick against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Salt Lick's last and first frost, putting it 21,736 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 583 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40371's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Salt Lick can differ from the 40371 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Salt Lick's frost date answer different questions.