Pikeville, KY 41502 Frost Dates
41502, near Pikeville, KY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 183 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 Pikeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pikeville'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.
Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pikeville against the rest of the dataset
Pikeville's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,818 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 710 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41502: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pikeville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pikeville can differ from the 41502 normal.