Carrollton, KY 41008 Frost Dates
41008, near Carrollton, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Carrollton 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
Carrollton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carrollton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Carrollton places 16,592 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 215 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41008: local microclimates, on what one yard in Carrollton can differ from the 41008 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Carrollton's frost date answer different questions.