Paintsville, KY 41216 Frost Dates
Paintsville, 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 10/25, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Paintsville 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 Paintsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Paintsville's last frost
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.
Paintsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Paintsville places 22,025 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 610 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41216's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Paintsville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Paintsville can differ from the 41216 normal.