Fort Thomas, KY 41075 Frost Dates
41075, near Fort Thomas, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Thomas 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
Fort Thomas's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Fort Thomas's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Thomas against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Fort Thomas's last and first frost, putting it 21,067 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 532 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41075: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fort Thomas's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fort Thomas can differ from the 41075 normal.