Dover, KY 41034 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Dover, KY, ZIP 41034
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 195 frost-free days later.
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 Dover, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Dover has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dover compares
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Dover places 19,363 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 399 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Dover's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Dover's dates instead of trusting one.