Silver Grove, KY 41085 Frost Dates
41085, near Silver Grove, 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.
Silver Grove 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
Silver Grove'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 Silver Grove'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.
Silver Grove against the rest of the dataset
Silver Grove's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,225 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 548 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41085: the frost range, on how to read the range around Silver Grove's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Silver Grove can differ from the 41085 normal.