Olive Hill, KY 41164 Frost Dates
41164, near Olive Hill, KY: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Olive Hill 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
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.
The actual range around Olive Hill's last frost
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
Olive Hill's growing season runs about 174 days, ranking 27,529 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 841 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41164: the frost range, on how to read the range around Olive Hill's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Olive Hill can differ from the 41164 normal.