Frankfort, KY 40604 Frost Dates
Frankfort, KY: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Frankfort 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Frankfort'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
04/15 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 20,172 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 424 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40604's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Frankfort can differ from the 40604 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Frankfort's frost date answer different questions.