Brooksville, KY 41061 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Brooksville, KY, ZIP 41061
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 200 frost-free days later.
Brooksville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Brooksville 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.
Why 04/11 isn't a guarantee
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Brooksville compares
About 200 days separate Brooksville's last and first frost, putting it 17,868 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 272 of 909.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Brooksville can differ from the 41061 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Brooksville's frost date answer different questions.