Germantown, KY 41044 Frost Dates
41044, near Germantown, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Germantown in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Germantown'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.
The actual range around Germantown's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 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.
Germantown against the rest of the dataset
Germantown's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,915 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 276 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41044: the frost range, on how to read the range around Germantown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Germantown can differ from the 41044 normal.