Pineville, KY 40856 Frost Dates
40856, near Pineville, 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 Pineville 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
Pineville'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.
Why 04/15 isn't a guarantee
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.
Pineville against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Pineville's last and first frost, putting it 18,713 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 316 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40856: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 40856 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Pineville's frost date answer different questions.