Fleming-Neon, KY 41812 Frost Dates
41812, near Fleming-Neon, KY: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fleming-Neon in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Fleming-Neon's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 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.
Fleming-Neon against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Fleming-Neon's last and first frost, putting it 23,977 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 739 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41812: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Fleming-Neon's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fleming-Neon's dates instead of trusting one.