Bellevue, KY 45202 Frost Dates
Bellevue, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bellevue 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Bellevue's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bellevue's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bellevue against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Bellevue places 21,143 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 541 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45202's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellevue can differ from the 45202 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bellevue's frost date answer different questions.