West Liberty, KY 41472 Frost Dates
41472, near West Liberty, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West Liberty 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
West Liberty'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.
The actual range around West Liberty'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.
West Liberty against the rest of the dataset
About 169 days separate West Liberty's last and first frost, putting it 29,441 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 880 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41472: the frost range, on how to read the range around West Liberty's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West Liberty can differ from the 41472 normal.