Ludlow, KY 45205 Frost Dates
45205, near Ludlow, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Ludlow sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Ludlow's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/16 isn't a guarantee
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.
Ludlow against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Ludlow places 19,888 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 411 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45205: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Ludlow's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Ludlow's dates instead of trusting one.