Beattyville, KY 41347 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Beattyville, KY, ZIP 41347
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 192 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Beattyville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Beattyville's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Beattyville compares
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Beattyville places 20,386 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 456 of 909.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Beattyville can differ from the 41347 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Beattyville's frost date answer different questions.