Olive Hill, KY 41173 Frost Dates
41173, near Olive Hill, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. 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 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 9 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
04/10 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.
Olive Hill against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Olive Hill places 17,547 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 254 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41173: local microclimates, on what one yard in Olive Hill can differ from the 41173 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Olive Hill's frost date answer different questions.