Paintsville, KY 41254 Frost Dates
41254, near Paintsville, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 174 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 Paintsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Paintsville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paintsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Paintsville places 27,456 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 831 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41254: local microclimates, on what one yard in Paintsville can differ from the 41254 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Paintsville's frost date answer different questions.