West Liberty, KY 41451 Frost Dates
Frost dates for West Liberty, KY, ZIP 41451
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 169 frost-free days later.
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 West Liberty, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around West Liberty has about 7 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 West Liberty's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How West Liberty compares
At roughly 169 frost-free days, West Liberty places 29,440 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 879 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and West Liberty's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around West Liberty's dates instead of trusting one.