Pineville, KY 40997 Frost Dates
40997, near Pineville, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
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 Pineville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pineville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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 22,445 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 673 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 40997: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 40997 normal.