Loyall, KY 40810 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Loyall, KY, ZIP 40810
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 197 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Loyall in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Loyall has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Loyall's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Loyall compares
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Loyall places 18,773 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 325 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Loyall's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Loyall can differ from the 40810 normal.