Pikeville, KY 41539 Frost Dates
Pikeville, KY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. 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 Pikeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Pikeville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pikeville'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.
Pikeville against the rest of the dataset
Pikeville's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,499 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 556 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41539's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pikeville can differ from the 41539 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pikeville's frost date answer different questions.