Vanceburg, KY 41179 Frost Dates
41179, near Vanceburg, KY: the frost window
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Vanceburg 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
Vanceburg'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.
The actual range around Vanceburg's last frost
04/12 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.
Vanceburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Vanceburg places 17,830 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 267 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41179: local microclimates, on what one yard in Vanceburg can differ from the 41179 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Vanceburg's frost date answer different questions.