Brooksville, KY 41004 Frost Dates
41004, near Brooksville, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Brooksville 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
Brooksville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Brooksville's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brooksville against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Brooksville's last and first frost, putting it 17,867 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 271 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41004: the frost range, on how to read the range around Brooksville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Brooksville can differ from the 41004 normal.