Fleming-Neon, KY 41849 Frost Dates
41849, near Fleming-Neon, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Fleming-Neon sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a 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.
Why 04/21 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Fleming-Neon places 23,982 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 744 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41849: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fleming-Neon can differ from the 41849 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Fleming-Neon's frost date answer different questions.