Frankfort, KY 40602 Frost Dates
40602, near Frankfort, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Frankfort sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Frankfort'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 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.
Frankfort against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate Frankfort's last and first frost, putting it 20,170 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 422 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40602: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Frankfort's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Frankfort's dates instead of trusting one.