Silver Grove, KY 45230 Frost Dates
Silver Grove, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Silver Grove 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Silver Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Silver Grove'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.
Silver Grove against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Silver Grove's last and first frost, putting it 21,226 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 549 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45230's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Silver Grove can differ from the 45230 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Silver Grove's frost date answer different questions.