Flatwoods, KY 41139 Frost Dates
41139, near Flatwoods, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
Flatwoods sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Flatwoods'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 Flatwoods's last frost
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.
Flatwoods against the rest of the dataset
Flatwoods's growing season runs about 181 days, ranking 24,493 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 784 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41139: local microclimates, on what one yard in Flatwoods can differ from the 41139 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Flatwoods's frost date answer different questions.