Walton, KY 41094 Frost Dates
41094, near Walton, KY: the frost window
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Walton 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
Walton'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 Walton's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Walton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Walton places 21,981 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 600 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41094: local microclimates, on what one yard in Walton can differ from the 41094 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Walton's frost date answer different questions.