Flemingsburg, KY 41081 Frost Dates
41081, near Flemingsburg, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 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 Flemingsburg 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
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.
The actual range around Flemingsburg's last frost
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
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Flemingsburg places 17,793 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 264 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41081: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Flemingsburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Flemingsburg's dates instead of trusting one.