Pineville, KY 40955 Frost Dates
Pineville, KY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Pineville sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Pineville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/19 isn't a guarantee
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pineville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Pineville places 22,442 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 670 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40955's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 40955 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pineville's frost date answer different questions.