Olive Hill, KY 41128 Frost Dates
41128, near Olive Hill, KY: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Olive Hill, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Olive Hill's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Olive Hill against the rest of the dataset
About 174 days separate Olive Hill's last and first frost, putting it 27,526 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 838 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41128: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Olive Hill's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Olive Hill's dates instead of trusting one.