Sandy Hook, KY 41421 Frost Dates
Sandy Hook, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 169 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 Sandy Hook, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Sandy Hook's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sandy Hook's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sandy Hook against the rest of the dataset
Sandy Hook's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,549 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 897 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41421's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sandy Hook can differ from the 41421 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sandy Hook's frost date answer different questions.