Manchester, KY 40951 Frost Dates
40951, near Manchester, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 170 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 Manchester, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Manchester'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.
The actual range around Manchester's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Manchester against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Manchester places 29,082 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 870 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40951: local microclimates, on what one yard in Manchester can differ from the 40951 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Manchester's frost date answer different questions.