Blaine, KY 41180 Frost Dates
Blaine, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Blaine 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Blaine's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Blaine's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blaine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Blaine places 32,558 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 909 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41180's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Blaine's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Blaine's dates instead of trusting one.