Salyersville, KY 41426 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Salyersville, KY, ZIP 41426
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 179 frost-free days later.
Salyersville sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Salyersville 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.
The actual range around Salyersville's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Salyersville compares
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Salyersville places 25,379 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KY, it ranks 801 of 909.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Salyersville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Salyersville's dates instead of trusting one.