Pikeville, KY 41557 Frost Dates
Pikeville, KY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Pikeville 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.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 23,819 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KY, it ranks 711 of 909.
Learn more
Before leaning on 41557's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pikeville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pikeville can differ from the 41557 normal.