Alexandria, KY 41001 Frost Dates
41001, near Alexandria, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 190 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 Alexandria, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Alexandria'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
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Alexandria against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Alexandria places 21,094 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 534 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41001: local microclimates, on what one yard in Alexandria can differ from the 41001 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Alexandria's frost date answer different questions.