Olive Hill, KY 41135 Frost Dates
Olive Hill, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
Olive Hill 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Olive Hill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee
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 27,527 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 839 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41135's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Olive Hill's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Olive Hill's dates instead of trusting one.