Butler, KY 41006 Frost Dates
Butler, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Butler 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 9 weeks until Butler's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Butler's last frost
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 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Butler against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Butler places 19,055 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 385 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41006's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Butler's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Butler can differ from the 41006 normal.