Dry Ridge, KY 41035 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Dry Ridge, KY?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 199 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 Dry Ridge, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Dry Ridge before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Dry Ridge's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dry Ridge compares
At roughly 199 frost-free days, Dry Ridge places 18,133 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 289 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Dry Ridge's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Dry Ridge can differ from the 41035 normal.