Pineville, KY 40977 Frost Dates
Pineville, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 187 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
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 22,443 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 671 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40977's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 40977 normal.