Blaine, KY 41201 Frost Dates
41201, near Blaine, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Blaine, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Blaine'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 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.
Blaine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Blaine places 27,659 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 849 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41201: the frost range, on how to read the range around Blaine's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Blaine can differ from the 41201 normal.