Catlettsburg, KY 41105 Frost Dates
41105, near Catlettsburg, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 181 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 Catlettsburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Catlettsburg'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Catlettsburg against the rest of the dataset
About 181 days separate Catlettsburg's last and first frost, putting it 24,609 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 786 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41105: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Catlettsburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Catlettsburg's dates instead of trusting one.