Loyall, KY 40816 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Loyall, KY?
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 197 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Loyall, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Loyall before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
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 18,774 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 326 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Loyall's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Loyall's dates instead of trusting one.