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Taylor Mill, KY 41015 Frost Dates

Taylor Mill, KY: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. 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 Taylor Mill, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Taylor Mill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Taylor Mill'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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Taylor Mill against the rest of the dataset

About 190 days separate Taylor Mill's last and first frost, putting it 21,131 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 536 of 909.

Learn more

Before leaning on 41015's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Taylor Mill's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Taylor Mill can differ from the 41015 normal.