Elkhorn City, KY 41524 Frost Dates
41524, near Elkhorn City, KY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 189 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 Elkhorn City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elkhorn City'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.
The actual range around Elkhorn City's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elkhorn City against the rest of the dataset
Elkhorn City's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,650 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 574 of 909.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 41524: local microclimates, on what one yard in Elkhorn City can differ from the 41524 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Elkhorn City's frost date answer different questions.