138 Kentucky school districts, each read against its own snow
Kentucky Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings for any Kentucky ZIP, with every district’s snow record and the rules Kentucky sets for a lost day.
Your district, your mornings
Snow day odds for your Kentucky ZIP
The next school morning
Tomorrow in Kentucky
The state’s biggest districts, each read against its own forecast and its own big snow morning.
Kentucky requires at least 1,062 instructional hours on at least 170 student attendance days.
“"Student instructional year" means at least one thousand sixty-two (1,062) hours of instructional time for students delivered on not less than one hundred seventy (170) student attendance days”
After an emergency a board may amend its calendar and lengthen or shorten the remaining days by 30 minutes or more, as long as the year still meets the requirement.
“If a local board of education amends its school calendar after its adoption due to an emergency, it may lengthen or shorten any remaining student attendance days by thirty (30) minutes or more, as it deems necessary”
A district with a Commissioner approved NTI plan may count up to the equivalent of 10 student attendance days when it closes for health or safety reasons.
“the commissioner of education may grant up to the equivalent of ten (10) student attendance days for school districts that have a nontraditional instruction plan approved by the commissioner of education on days when the school district is closed for health or safety reasons.”
Ranked by weekday mornings from December through March with 4 inches or more of new snow at the 7 am reading, averaged over ten winters at each district’s nearest NOAA weather station.
8 Kentucky districts print a number of snow days on their own 2026 to 2027 calendars. A closing inside that number leaves the calendar as printed; one past it is made up, usually from a break or the end of the year.
Snow a winter and 4 inch mornings come from each district’s nearest NOAA weather station over ten winters. Built in days are the district’s own, read from its calendar. Every linked district has a page with its live odds, its snow record and its schools.
Erlanger-Elsmere Independent School DistrictErlanger
2,399
19.6 in
0.4
Hart County School DistrictMunfordville
2,377
5.2 in
0.1
Lawrence County School DistrictLouisa
2,360
5.5 in
0.3
Fleming County School DistrictFlemingsburg
2,209
17.6 in
0.7
Pendleton County School DistrictFalmouth
2,201
Estill County School DistrictIrvine
2,197
12.4 in
0.5
Casey County School DistrictLiberty
2,183
11.7 in
0.2
Webster County School DistrictDixon
2,173
4.7 in
0
Butler County School DistrictMorgantown
2,166
3.6 in
0.1
Powell County School DistrictStanton
2,087
10.1 in
0.4
Knott County School DistrictHindman
2,072
9.9 in
0.3
Union County School DistrictMorganfield
2,058
4.7 in
0.2
Russell Independent School DistrictFlatwoods
2,048
3.5 in
0.3
Jackson County School DistrictMcKee
2,022
9.9 in
0.6
Henry County School DistrictNew Castle
2,006
8.4 in
0.1
Lewis County School DistrictVanceburg
1,981
17.6 in
0.7
Carroll County School DistrictCarrollton
1,965
8.4 in
0.1
Trigg County School DistrictCadiz
1,958
6.3 in
0.1
Magoffin County School DistrictSalyersville
1,947
7.7 in
0.2
Bath County School DistrictOwingsville
1,925
7.4 in
0.1
Caldwell County School DistrictPrinceton
1,905
6.3 in
0.1
Todd County School DistrictElkton
1,884
Walton-Verona Independent School DistrictWalton
1,881
19.6 in
0.4
Edmonson County School DistrictBrownsville
1,859
5.7 in
0
Monroe County School DistrictTompkinsville
1,823
5.2 in
0.1
Morgan County School DistrictWest Liberty
1,823
7.7 in
0.2
Washington County School DistrictSpringfield
1,787
11.7 in
0.2
Breathitt County School DistrictJackson
1,720
16.2 in
0.6
Martin County School DistrictInez
1,718
9.4 in
0.4
Owen County School DistrictOwenton
1,687
8.4 in
0.1
Green County School DistrictGreensburg
1,653
5.2 in
0.1
Leslie County School DistrictHyden
1,649
8.2 in
0.2
Clinton County School DistrictAlbany
1,536
1.6 in
0.1
Gallatin County School DistrictWarsaw
1,482
9.8 in
0.1
Hancock County School DistrictHawesville
1,481
Metcalfe County School DistrictEdmonton
1,460
5.2 in
0.1
Newport Independent School DistrictNewport
1,393
19.6 in
0.4
McLean County School DistrictCalhoun
1,390
4.7 in
0
Crittenden County School DistrictMarion
1,362
3 in
0.3
Trimble County School DistrictBedford
1,248
8.4 in
0.1
Cloverport Independent School DistrictCloverport
1,231
3.1 in
0.1
Bracken County School DistrictBrooksville
1,150
Raceland-Worthington Independent School DistrictRaceland
1,149
3.5 in
0.3
Nicholas County School DistrictCarlisle
1,091
7.4 in
0.1
Wolfe County School DistrictCampton
1,083
9.9 in
0.6
Livingston County School DistrictSmithland
1,049
7.1 in
0.3
Ballard County School DistrictBarlow
1,039
7.1 in
0.3
Cumberland County School DistrictBurkesville
1,018
1.6 in
0.1
Berea Independent School DistrictBerea
1,005
12.4 in
0.5
Eminence Independent School DistrictEminence
991
8.4 in
0.1
Lyon County School DistrictEddyville
973
Menifee County School DistrictFrenchburg
938
10.7 in
0.4
Elliott County School DistrictSandy Hook
911
12.7 in
0.5
Lee County School DistrictBeattyville
902
9.9 in
0.6
Dayton Independent School DistrictDayton
870
20 in
0.7
Ludlow Independent School DistrictLudlow
813
19.6 in
0.4
Owsley County School DistrictBooneville
742
9.9 in
0.6
Carlisle County School DistrictBardwell
738
7.1 in
0.3
Hickman County School DistrictClinton
717
4.5 in
0.1
Fulton County School DistrictHickman
613
1.4 in
0.1
Bellevue Independent School DistrictBellevue
593
19.6 in
0.4
Burgin Independent School DistrictBurgin
506
11.7 in
0.2
Jenkins Independent School DistrictJenkins
482
24.9 in
0.9
Robertson County School DistrictMount Olivet
459
Anchorage Independent School DistrictAnchorage
399
12.3 in
0.3
Augusta Independent School DistrictAugusta
320
Questions
Kentucky snow day questions
Kentucky requires at least 1,062 instructional hours on at least 170 student attendance days.
After an emergency a board may amend its calendar and lengthen or shorten the remaining days by 30 minutes or more, as long as the year still meets the requirement.
A district with a Commissioner approved NTI plan may count up to the equivalent of 10 student attendance days when it closes for health or safety reasons.
All 138 in the state, by ZIP, with a page of their own for 53, including Jefferson, Fayette and Boone. Every page carries the district’s own snow record and the odds for its next three school mornings.
A typical Kentucky district sees about 1.1 weekday mornings a winter with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.2 with 4 inches or more, counted on weekdays from December 1 through March 31 at each district’s nearest NOAA weather station over ten winters. The snowiest districts in the table see several times that.
Three school mornings, as far as the National Weather Service hourly forecast reaches. Weekends and the district’s winter break are skipped, so a Friday storm is read for Monday’s buses.
It reads the National Weather Service forecast for your ZIP through the night and the bus hours, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against what counts as a big morning for your district. The state rules come from the Kentucky Department of Education and the state code.
