Ewing, KY 41039 Frost Dates
41039, near Ewing, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 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 Ewing, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ewing'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.
Why 04/12 isn't a guarantee
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ewing against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Ewing's last and first frost, putting it 17,900 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 274 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41039: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ewing can differ from the 41039 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Ewing's frost date answer different questions.