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Corinth, KY 41010 Frost Dates

Corinth, KY: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 199 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 Corinth, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Corinth's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Corinth's last frost

04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Corinth against the rest of the dataset

About 199 days separate Corinth's last and first frost, putting it 18,217 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 298 of 909.

Learn more

Before leaning on 41010's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Corinth's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Corinth can differ from the 41010 normal.