Paintsville, KY 41240 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Paintsville, KY, ZIP 41240
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 188 frost-free days later.
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 Paintsville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Paintsville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Paintsville compares
About 188 days separate Paintsville's last and first frost, putting it 22,029 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KY, it ranks 614 of 909.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Paintsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Paintsville can differ from the 41240 normal.