Sandy Hook, KY 41171 Frost Dates
41171, near Sandy Hook, KY: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sandy Hook 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
Sandy Hook's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/10 isn't a guarantee
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sandy Hook against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Sandy Hook's last and first frost, putting it 17,618 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 257 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41171: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sandy Hook can differ from the 41171 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Sandy Hook's frost date answer different questions.