Ashland, KY 41102 Frost Dates
41102, near Ashland, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
Ashland 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
Ashland'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ashland against the rest of the dataset
About 181 days separate Ashland's last and first frost, putting it 24,466 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 783 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41102: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ashland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ashland can differ from the 41102 normal.