Sharpsburg, KY 40374 Frost Dates
40374, near Sharpsburg, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sharpsburg 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
Sharpsburg's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Sharpsburg against the rest of the dataset
Sharpsburg's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 27,203 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 829 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40374: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Sharpsburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Sharpsburg's dates instead of trusting one.