Loyall, KY 40824 Frost Dates
40824, near Loyall, KY: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Loyall'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Loyall against the rest of the dataset
Loyall's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,776 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 328 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40824: local microclimates, on what one yard in Loyall can differ from the 40824 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Loyall's frost date answer different questions.