Beattyville, KY 41311 Frost Dates
Beattyville, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Beattyville 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Beattyville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Beattyville's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beattyville against the rest of the dataset
Beattyville's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,385 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 455 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41311's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Beattyville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Beattyville can differ from the 41311 normal.