Manchester, KY 40932 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Manchester, KY, ZIP 40932
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 170 frost-free days later.
Manchester 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Manchester has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Manchester's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Manchester compares
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Manchester places 29,080 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 868 of 909.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Manchester can differ from the 40932 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Manchester's frost date answer different questions.