Flemingsburg, KY 41041 Frost Dates
41041, near Flemingsburg, 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.
Flemingsburg sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Flemingsburg'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.
Flemingsburg against the rest of the dataset
Flemingsburg's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,791 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 262 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41041: local microclimates, on what one yard in Flemingsburg can differ from the 41041 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Flemingsburg's frost date answer different questions.